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

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

3 Do not desire the ruler’s delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Proverbs 23:1-3, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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