28 Don’t move an ancient boundary marker
that your ancestors set up.(A)

29 Do you see a person skilled in his work?
He will stand in the presence of kings.
He will not stand in the presence of the unknown.(B)

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23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what[a] is before you,
and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big[b] appetite;
don’t desire his choice food,(A)
for that food is deceptive.

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;(B)
because you know better, stop!
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(C)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[c](D)
and don’t desire his choice food,(E)
for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[d](F)
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.(G)
You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 23:1 Or who
  2. 23:2 Lit you are the master of an
  3. 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye
  4. 23:7 LXX reads it is like someone swallowing a hair in the throat
  5. 23:9 Lit in the ears of

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