Proverbs 23:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.

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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.

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.

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

And he went and fetched them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made a tasty dish, such as his father loved.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Look well what is before you;

Proverbs 23:20

Be not among heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

1 Corinthians 9:27

But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, lest having proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.