Proverbs 23:2
Verse 2 of 35. The 23rd of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
2put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
3Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.