Proverbs 23:2 - The Scriptures 1998

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

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

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² For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.

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

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² Place a knife at your throat to control your appetite.

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² and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.

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

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

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

But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, so that when I have proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.

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