"When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what {is} before thee:" — Proverbs 23:1

Proverbs 23:1 · KJV

“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what {is} before thee:”

— Proverbs 23:1

Verse 2

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou {be} a man given to appetite.

Proverbs 23 — Context

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what {is} before thee:

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou {be} a man given to appetite.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they {are} deceitful meat.

Cross References

Genesis 43:32-34

And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that {is} an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Jude 1:12

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds {they are} without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;