Proverbs 23:1-6

¹When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

²put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

³Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

⁴Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

⁵Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

⁶Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,