Proverbs

¹WHEN YOU sit down to eat with a ruler, consider who and what are before you; ²For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire. ³Be not desirous of his dainties, for it is deceitful food [offered with questionable motives]. ⁴Weary not yourself to be rich; cease from your own [human] wisdom. [Prov. 28:20; I Tim. 6:9, 10.] ⁵Will you set your eyes upon wealth, when [suddenly] it is gone? For riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flies toward the heavens. ⁶Eat not the bread of him who has a hard, grudging, and envious eye, neither desire his dainty foods; ⁷For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].