Proverbs 23:1-8

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

2and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

4Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

5When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

6Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,

7for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.