^12 [a]Are you seated at the table of the great?^[b]
    Do not be greedy at it,
    and do not say, “How much food there is here!”^(A)

¹⁶ Eat what is set before you like a well brought-up person,^[a]
    and do not chew greedily, or you will be despised.^(A)

¹⁷ Be the first to stop, as befits good manners,
    and do not be insatiable, or you will give offense.