1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,carefully consider what is in front of you.
2 Place a knife at your throatto control your appetite.
3 Don’t long for the ruler’s delicacies;the food misleads.
4 Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;be smart enough to stop.
5 When your eyes fly to wealthit is gone; it grows wingslike an eagle and flies heavenward.
6 Don’t eat food with stingy people;don’t long for their delicacies,
7 because they are like a hair in the throat.They say to you, "Eat and drink!"but they don’t mean it.