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A host gestures toward bread while a guest pauses across the table.
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Proverbs 23:7

Invitation and Calculation

The Ruler’s Table and Wine’s Bitter End · Proverbs 23

Story guide: An inviting gesture gives way to fingers counting small stones, moving the proverb from offered hospitality to inward reckoning.

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7For he is inwardly counting the cost: “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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