23:1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
consider carefully
23:2 and put a knife to your throat
if you possess a large appetite.
23:3 Do not crave that ruler’s
for
23:6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person,
do not crave his delicacies;
23:7 for he is
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you;
23:8 you will vomit up
and will have wasted your pleasant words.