Proverbs 23:1-8 ▼

1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,

2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.

3 Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

4 Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

5 When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

7 for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. |Eat and drink,| he says to you, but his heart is not with you;

8 you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.