OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Proverbs 23:6

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Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,

and don’t crave his delicacies,

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Proverbs 23:3–9

3

Don’t be desirous of his dainties,

since they are deceitful food.

4

Don’t weary yourself to be rich.

In your wisdom, show restraint.

5

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?

For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

6
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Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,

and don’t crave his delicacies,

7

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

but his heart is not with you.

8

You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten

and waste your pleasant words.

9

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,

for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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