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for like a hair in the throat, so are they.[a]
    “Eat and drink!” they say to you;
    but they do not mean it.
You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
    and you will waste your pleasant words.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
    who will only despise the wisdom of your words.

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  1. Proverbs 23:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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