and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite;
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.
Place a knife at your throat to control your appetite.
and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.
And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.
When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,
Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine or with those who gorge themselves on meat.
Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.