Proverbs 23:1-8

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

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

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

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

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

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

7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost].

8The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, And you will waste your compliments.