Proverbs 23:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² and put a knife to your throat if you have a big   appetite;

Dugang nga mga bersyon

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.

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.

Proverbs 23:2 Cross References

Genesis 27:14

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what   is before you,

Proverbs 23:20

Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine or with those who gorge themselves on meat.

1 Corinthians 9:27

Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory  is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.