Proverbs 23:1-8 ▼

1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Understand well what is before you,

2 So you should put a knife to your throat If you are a man of appetite.

3 Do not desire his delicacies, For it is bread of falsehood.

4 Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Because of your understanding, cease!

5 Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there! Because it certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, And do not desire his delicacies;

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

8 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And you will corrupt your pleasant words.