Proverbs 23:1-5 ▼

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.

3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.