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Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](A)
and don’t desire his delicacies,(B)
for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[b](C)
‘Eat and drink,’ he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.(D)
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