23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of (A)life.

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23 Above all else, guard(A) your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.(B)

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Do not eat the bread of (A)a[a] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” (B)he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit. one who has an evil eye

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)
for he is the kind of person
    who is always thinking about the cost.[a]
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
    but his heart is not with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he thinks within himself, / so he is; or for as he puts on a feast, / so he is