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Proverbs 23:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Stick the knife in your gullet if you have a ravenous appetite.

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So Jacob went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared a dish in the way his father liked.

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, mark well the one who is before you;

Do not join with wine bibbers, nor with those who glut themselves on meat.

No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.