Proverbs 23:4-10

⁴Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

⁵Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

⁶Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,

⁷for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁸You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

⁹Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,