1. When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
2. and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
3. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
4. Do not wear yourself out to get rich. Be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5. When you cast your eyes 0n riches, it is gone; for it surely sprouts wings and flies off into the sky like an eagle.
6. Do not eat the food of a stingy person, or desire his delicacies.
7. For as he thinks within himself, so is he. “Eat and drink”, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8. You will vomit up the morsel you ate, and will waste your pleasant words.
9. Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will disdain the wisdom of your words.
10. Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or encroach on fields of the fatherless,