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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 23:4-8

New International Version (1984 Edition)
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Proverbs 23:4
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Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
Proverbs 23:5
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Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
Proverbs 23:6
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Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies;
Proverbs 23:7
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for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. (F44) "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
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Proverbs 23:8
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You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.
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