1. When you sit down to eat with a leader, pay close attention to what has been set before your face,
2. and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.
3. Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.
4. Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.
5. Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky.
6. Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods.
7. For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. "Eat and drink," he will say to you; and his mind is not with you.
8. The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.
9. Do not speak into the ears of the unwise. They will despise the doctrine of your eloquence.
10. Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.
11. For their close relative is strong, and he will judge their case against you.
12. Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge.