When you sit down to eat with an official, observe carefully what is before you,
These are blots on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;
Do you see those who are skillful in their work? They will serve kings; they will not serve common people.
and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.