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When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;
    for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
    do not desire their delicacies;
for like a hair in the throat, so are they.[a]
    “Eat and drink!” they say to you;
    but they do not mean it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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