and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large 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 got them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a delicious meal that his father would love.
When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
Do not join those drinking too much wine or gorging on meat,
Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Their end is destruction—their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame. They set their minds on earthly things.)