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Proverbs 23:6

โ€œDon't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:โ€

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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

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

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

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