Proverbs 23:4-8
New American Standard Bible
4 (A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
[a](B)Stop dwelling on it.
5 [b]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For (C)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
6 (D)Do not eat the bread of [c]a (E)selfish person;
Or desire his delicacies;
7 For as he [d]thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But (F)his heart is not with you.
8 You will (G)vomit up [e]the morsel you have eaten
And waste your [f]compliments.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:4 Lit Refrain from your understanding of it
- Proverbs 23:5 Lit Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?
- Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye
- Proverbs 23:7 Lit reckons in his soul
- Proverbs 23:8 Lit your
- Proverbs 23:8 Lit pleasant words
Proverbs 23:4-8
Christian Standard Bible
4 Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;(A)
because you know better, stop!
5 As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(B)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.
6 Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](C)
and don’t desire his choice food,(D)
7 for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[b](E)
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.(F)
8 You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.
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