1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,consider carefully what is before you,
2 and put a knife to your throatif you possess a large appetite.
3 Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies,for that food is deceptive.
4 Do not wear yourself out to become rich;be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 When you gaze upon riches, they are gone,for they surely make wings for themselves,and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person,do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. “Eat and drink,” he says to you,but his heart is not with you;