Proverbs 23:1-5 ▼

1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, mark well the one who is before you;

2 Stick the knife in your gullet if you have a ravenous appetite.

3 Do not desire his delicacies; it is food that deceives.

4 Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth, cease to be worried about it;

5 When your glance flits to it, it is gone! For assuredly it grows wings, like the eagle that flies toward heaven.