14 Stretch not your hand wherever it looks, And thrust not yourself with it into the dish.
15 Consider your neighbor’s liking by your own; And be discreet in every point.
16 Eat, as becomes a man, those things which are set before you; And eat not greedily, lest you be hated.
17 Be first to leave off for manners’ sake; And be not insatiable, lest you offend.
18 And if you sit among many, Reach not out your hand before them.
19 How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little, And he does not breathe hard upon his bed.
20 Healthy sleep comes of moderate eating; He rises early, and his wits are with him: The pain of wakefulness, and colic, And griping, are with an insatiable man.