Proverbs 23:2

A Conservative Version

and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite.

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

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

When thou sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently him who is before thee,

Be not among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of flesh.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.