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Proverbs 23:6-8
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6 Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](A)
and don’t desire his choice food,(B)
7 for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[b](C)
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.(D)
8 You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye
  2. 23:7 LXX reads it is like someone swallowing a hair in the throat
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Proverbs 23:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

6 Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
    do not desire their delicacies,(A)
7 for like a hair in the throat, so are they.[a]
    “Eat and drink!” they say to you,
    but they do not mean it.(B)
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
    and you will waste your pleasant words.

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Footnotes

  1. 23.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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