Proverbs 23:4-8

International Standard Version

⁴ Don’t exhaust yourself acquiring wealth;
    be smart enough to stop.
⁵ When you fix your gaze on it, it’s gone,
    for it sprouts wings for itself
        and flies to the sky like an eagle.

⁶ Don’t consume food provided by a miserly^[a] person,
    and don’t desire his delicacies,
⁷ for as he thinks within himself, so he is.
    “Eat and drink!” he’ll say to you,
        but his heart won’t be with you.
⁸ You’ll vomit up what little you’ve eaten,
    and your compliments will have been wasted.