1
When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what(a) is before you,
2
and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big(b) appetite;

Footnotes:

a. Proverbs 23:1: Or who
b. Proverbs 23:2: Lit you are the master of an

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