Proverbs 23:1-6 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. When you sit to eat with a ruler,consider diligently what is before you;

2. and put a knife to your throat,if you are a man given to appetite.

3. Be not desirous of his delicacies,for they are deceptive food.

4. Do not labor to be rich;cease from your own wisdom.

5. Will you set your eyes on that which is not?For riches certainly make themselves wings;they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6. Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye,neither desire his delicacies;

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