6 Do not take food with unwilling hosts, and do not desire their delicacies;

7 For like something stuck in the throat is that food. “Eat and drink,” they say to you, but their hearts are not with you;

8 The little you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will have wasted your agreeable words.

Proverbs 23:6-8, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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