• • • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
    • A Guide to Self-Reflection
    • A chart to help articulate feelings

¹ When you sit down to eat with a ruler,

observe carefully what is before you,

² and put a knife to your throat

if you are given to appetite.

³ Do not desire his delicacies,

for they are deceptive food.

⁴ Do not toil to acquire wealth;

be discerning enough to desist.

⁵ When your eyes light on it, it is gone,

for suddenly it sprouts wings,

flying like an eagle toward heaven.

⁶ Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;

do not desire his delicacies,

⁷ for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

but his heart is not with you.

⁸ You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,

and waste your pleasant words.

⁹ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,

for he will despise the good sense of your words.

¹⁰ Do not move an ancient landmark

or enter the fields of the fatherless,

¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong;

he will plead their cause against you.