Proverbs 23:1-5 ▼

1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is [set] before you;

2 For you will put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.

3 Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food [offered to you with questionable motives].

4 Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth; Cease from your own understanding of it.

5 When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.