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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36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

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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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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

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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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For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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