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for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning.[a]
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you;
    but his heart is not with you.
You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten,
    and waste your pleasant words.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
    for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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  1. Proverbs 23:7 Heb obscure

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