Proverbs 23:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

More versions

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

Philippians 3:19

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

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;

Proverbs 23:20

Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

Genesis 27:14

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