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.