When you sit to dine with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you,
Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
and put a knife to your throat if you be a man given to gluttony.
These are the ones who are stains on your love feasts as they feast with you irreverently and care only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;