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When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;
    for suddenly it takes to itself wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;
    do not desire his delicacies;
for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning.[a]
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you;
    but his heart is not with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 Heb obscure

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