Proverbs 23:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷     because they are like a hair in the throat.^[a]
They say to you, “Eat and drink!”
    but they don’t mean it.
⁸ You will eat scraps and vomit them out.
    You will waste your pleasant words.
⁹ Don’t speak in the ears of fools,
    for they will scorn your insightful words.