Proverbs 23:1-7

Authorized (King James) Version

23 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
consider diligently what is before thee:
² and put a knife to thy throat,
if thou be a man given to appetite.
³ Be not desirous of his dainties:
for they are deceitful meat.
⁴ Labour not to be rich:
cease from thine own wisdom.
⁵ Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
for riches certainly make themselves wings;
they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
neither desire thou his dainty meats:
⁷ for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
but his heart is not with thee.