Proverbs 23:1-8 ▼

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

2 And 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.

4 Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.

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

6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies;

7 For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, “Eat and drink!” But his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.