Proverbs 23:2 - Tree of Life Version

² and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

Common English Bible

² Place a knife at your throat to control your appetite.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.

Proverbs 23:2 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 27:14

So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a delicious meal that his father would love.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,

Proverbs 23:20

Do not join those drinking too much wine or gorging on meat,

1 Corinthians 9:27

Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction—their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame. They set their minds on earthly things.)