Proverbs 23:1-7

¹When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is before thee;

²And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

³Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.

⁴Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.

⁵Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

⁶Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties;

⁷For as one that hath reckoned within himself, so is he: 'Eat and drink', saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.