Proverbs 23:1-8

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

2And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.

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

4Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!

5Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

6Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies;

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

8The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.