36 Turn my heart to your decrees(A)
and not to dishonest profit.(B)

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36 Turn my heart(A) toward your statutes
    and not toward selfish gain.(B)

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Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](A)
and don’t desire his choice food,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.(A)

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For fools speak folly,(A)
    their hearts are bent on evil:(B)
They practice ungodliness(C)
    and spread error(D) concerning the Lord;
the hungry they leave empty(E)
    and from the thirsty they withhold water.

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