1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
2. and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
3. Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
4. Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
5. wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
6. Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.