Proverbs 23:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for like a hair in the throat, so are they. “Eat and drink!” they say to you, but they do not mean it.

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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].

For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

because they are like a hair in the throat. They say to you, “Eat and drink!” but they don’t mean it.

For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. "Eat and drink," he will say to you; and his mind is not with you.

Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.