23 When you sit down to eat with an official,
    observe carefully what^[a] is before you,
² and put a knife to your throat
    if you have a big appetite.
³ Do not desire an official’s^[b] delicacies,
    for they are deceptive food.^(A)

²¹ My child, fear the Lord and the king,
    and do not disobey either of them,^[a](A)
22 for disaster comes from them suddenly,
    and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

² It is the glory of God to conceal things,
    but the glory of kings is to search things out.^(A)
3 Like the heavens for height, like the earth for depth,
    so the mind of kings is unsearchable.
⁴ Take away the dross from the silver,
    and the smith has material for a vessel;^(B)
5 take away the wicked from the presence of the king,
    and his throne will be established in righteousness.^(C)
6 Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence
    or stand in the place of the great,
⁷ for it is better to be told, “Come up here,”
    than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.

What your eyes have seen^(D)