(A)Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    (B)be discerning enough to desist.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    (C)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
(D)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (E)stingy;[a]
    (F)do not desire his delicacies,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil

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