Proverbs 23:1-8 ▼

1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,

2 and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite;

3 don’t desire his choice food, for that food is deceptive.

4 Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; because you know better, stop!

5 As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

6 Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food,

7 for it’s like someone calculating inwardly. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit the little you’ve eaten and waste your pleasant words.