Proverbs 23:1-8 ▼

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

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

3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,

7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.