And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to 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.
And he went and fetched them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made a tasty dish, such as his father loved.
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Look well what is before you;
Be not among heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, lest having proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.
Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.