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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he

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