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23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
    observe carefully what[a] is before you,
and put a knife to your throat
    if you have a big appetite.
Do not desire the ruler’s[b] delicacies,
    for they are deceptive food.

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  1. Proverbs 23:1 Or who
  2. Proverbs 23:3 Heb his

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