and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.
Place a knife at your throat to control your appetite.
and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.
And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.