1. WHEN YOU sit down to eat with a ruler, consider who and what are before you;
2. For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.
3. Be not desirous of his dainties, for it is deceitful food [offered with questionable motives].
4. Weary not yourself to be rich; cease from your own [human] wisdom. [Prov. 28:20; I Tim. 6:9, 10.]
5. Will you set your eyes upon wealth, when [suddenly] it is gone? For riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
6. Eat not the bread of him who has a hard, grudging, and envious eye, neither desire his dainty foods;
7. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].
8. The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and your complimentary words will be wasted.
9. Speak not in the ears of a [self-confident] fool, for he will despise the [godly] Wisdom of your words. [Isa. 32:6.]
10. Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless, [Deut. 19:14; 27:17; Prov. 22:28.]
11. For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.