Proverbs 23:1-8

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

2and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite;

3don’t desire his choice food, for that food is deceptive.

4Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; because you know better, stop!

5As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

6Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food,

7for it’s like someone calculating inwardly. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8You will vomit the little you’ve eaten and waste your pleasant words.