Proverbs 23:2 - Catholic Public Domain Version

² and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

Common English Bible

² Place a knife at your throat to control your appetite.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 23:2 Cross References

Genesis 27:14

He went out, and he brought, and he gave to his mother. She prepared the meats, just as she knew his father liked.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to eat with a leader, pay close attention to what has been set before your face,

Proverbs 23:20

Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh.

1 Corinthians 9:27

Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.