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Proverbs 23:6-8
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6 Don’t eat the food of a selfish person.
    Don’t be greedy for his fine foods.
7 A selfish person is always worrying
    about how much the food costs.
He tells you, “Eat and drink.”
    But he doesn’t really mean it.
8 So you will feel like throwing up the little bit you have eaten.
    And you will have wasted your kind words.

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Proverbs 23:6-8
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Saying 9

6 Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)
7 for he is the kind of person
    who is always thinking about the cost.[a]
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
    but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
    and will have wasted your compliments.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he thinks within himself, / so he is; or for as he puts on a feast, / so he is
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