1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
2. and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
3. Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
4. Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
5. wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.