Proverbs 23:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to eat with an official, observe carefully what is before you,

Proverbs 23:20

Do not be among winebibbers or among gluttonous eaters of meat,

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.