[a]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For (A)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

(B)Do not eat the bread of [b]a (C)selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;
For as he [c]thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But (D)his heart is not with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:5 Lit Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?
  2. Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye
  3. Proverbs 23:7 Lit reckons in his soul