and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.