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Proverbs 23:1-8
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Proverbs 23:1-8
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When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently what is before you;
2
Put a knife to your throat, If you are a man given to appetite.
3
Don't be desirous of his dainties, Seeing 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.
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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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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
The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.
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