New International Version

Proverbs 23:4-8 New International Version (NIV)

4. Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

5. 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.

6. Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;

7. for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8. You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.