1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Look well what is before you;
2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.
3 Do not desire his delicacies, For that food is deceptive.
4 Do not labour to be rich. Cease from your own understanding!
5 Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.