Proverbs 23:1-11 ▼

1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, discern carefully what is before your face,

2 and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.

3 You should not mark out his delicacies, for it is bread of lies.

4 Do not toil to become rich, cease from your own understanding.

5 Will you make your eyes fly onto it, and it is not there? For it certainly makes for itself wings like an eagle and flies away to the heavens!

6 Do not eat the bread of one evil of eye, and do not mark out his delicacies.

7 For like one who calculates in his soul, so is he—“Eat and drink,” he says to you, and his heart is not with you.

8 Your morsel that you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will ruin your pleasant words!

9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

10 Do not remove a boundary of old, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless.

11 For their Redeemer is strong—He will contend their dispute against you.