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–8–

Don't accept an invitation
to eat a selfish person's food,
    no matter how good it is.
People like that take note
    of how much you eat.[a]
They say, “Take all you want!”
    But they don't mean it.
Each bite will come back up,
and all your kind words
    will be wasted.

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Footnotes

  1. 23.7 People … eat: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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