Proverbs 23:3

In context

1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you, 2and put a knife to your own throat if you are a man of appetite. 3Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is a lie. 4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the sense to stop. 5Let your eyes fly to it and it is gone: wealth sprouts wings for itself and flies off to the sky like an eagle.