Proverbs 23:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

Proverbs 23:1

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;

Proverbs 23:20

Be not among winebibbers; Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.