1. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
2. And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
3. Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.
4. Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
5. Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6. Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:
7. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.