for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[a](A)
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.(B)
You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.

Don’t speak to[b] a fool,
for he will despise the insight of your words.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 LXX reads it is like someone swallowing a hair in the throat
  2. Proverbs 23:9 Lit in the ears of

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