1. When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what is before you,
2. and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.
3. Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception.
4. Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
5. Your eyes will alight on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
6. Do not eat the bread of the stingy, and do not desire his delicacies.
7. For, like hair in his throat, so it is. “Eat and drink!” he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.
8. Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.
9. In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10. Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
11. For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.