Proverbs 23:1-10

¹When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.

²And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

³Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

⁴Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

⁵Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

⁶Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

⁷Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

⁸The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

⁹Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.

¹⁰Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: