The company you keep

Some words of wisdom from the good Book regarding the company you keep and their influence.

Proverbs 23

23 When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.

² And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

³ Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

⁴ Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

⁵ Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

⁶ Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

⁷ Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

⁸ The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.