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Don't be greedy for the fine food he serves; he may be trying to trick you.

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Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich. Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle.

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Do not desire his delicacies,
For they are deceptive food.

(A)Do not overwork to be rich;
(B)Because of your own understanding, cease!
[a]Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:5 Lit. Will you cause your eyes to fly upon it and it is not?