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Proverbs 23:2-8 Modern English Version (MEV)

2. and put a knife to your throat,if you are a man given to appetite.

3. Be not desirous of his delicacies,for they are deceptive food.

4. Do not labor to be rich;cease from your own wisdom.

5. Will you set your eyes on that which is not?For riches certainly make themselves wings;they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6. Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye,neither desire his delicacies;

7. for as he thinks in his heart,so is he.“Eat and drink!” he says to you,but his heart is not with you.

8. The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,and lose your sweet words.

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