Proverbs 23:4-8

Modern English Version

⁴ Do not labor to be rich;
    cease from your own wisdom.
⁵ Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
    For riches certainly make themselves wings;
    they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

⁶ Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye,
    neither desire his delicacies;
⁷ for as he thinks in his heart,
    so is he.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his heart is not with you.
⁸ The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
    and lose your sweet words.