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As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(A)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

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

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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