1. When you sit down to eat with a ruler,Consider carefully what is before you;
2. And put a knife to your throatIf you are a man given to appetite.
3. Do not desire his delicacies,For they are deceptive food.
4. Do not overwork to be rich;Because of your own understanding, cease!
5. Will you set your eyes on that which is not?For riches certainly make themselves wings;They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
6. Do not eat the bread of a miser,Nor desire his delicacies;
7. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.“Eat and drink!” he says to you,But his heart is not with you.