Proverbs 23:1-5 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

1. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

2. And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

3. Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.

4. Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

5. Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 23