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23When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
observe carefully what is before you,
²and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big appetite.
³Do not desire the ruler’s delicacies,
for they are deceptive food.
⁴Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
be wise enough to desist.
⁵When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;
for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
⁶Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
do not desire their delicacies;
⁷for like a hair in the throat, so are they.
“Eat and drink!” they say to you;
but they do not mean it.
⁸You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
and you will waste your pleasant words.
⁹Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
who will only despise the wisdom of your words.
¹⁰Do not remove an ancient landmark
or encroach on the fields of orphans,
¹¹for their redeemer is strong;
he will plead their cause against you.