Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. New Living Translation If you are a big eater, put a knife to your throat; English Standard Version and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Berean Standard Bible and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite. King James Bible And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. New King James Version And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite. New American Standard Bible And put a knife to your throat If you are a person of great appetite. NASB 1995 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. NASB 1977 And put a knife to your throat, If you are a man of great appetite. Legacy Standard Bible So you should put a knife to your throat If you are a man of appetite. Amplified Bible For you will put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. Christian Standard Bible and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite; Holman Christian Standard Bible and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite; American Standard Version And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Lest you put a dagger to your mouth, if you are a man that breathes. Brenton Septuagint Translation and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable, Contemporary English Version Don't go and stuff yourself! That would be just the same as cutting your throat. Douay-Rheims Bible And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power. English Revised Version And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. GOD'S WORD® Translation and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite. Good News Translation If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself. International Standard Version Put a knife to your own throat, if you have a big appetite. JPS Tanakh 1917 And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite. Literal Standard Version And you have put a knife to your throat, | If you [are] a man of appetite. Majority Standard Bible and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite. New American Bible Stick the knife in your gullet if you have a ravenous appetite. NET Bible and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. New Revised Standard Version and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite. New Heart English Bible put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. Webster's Bible Translation And put a knife to thy throat, if thou art a man given to appetite. World English Bible put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. Young's Literal Translation And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite. Additional Translations ... Context True Riches1When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you, 2and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite. 3Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.… Cross References 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 who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. Treasury of Scripture And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Proverbs 18:8,9 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly… 1 Corinthians 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) Jump to Previous Appetite Desire Food Gluttony Great Knife Strong ThroatJump to Next Appetite Desire Food Gluttony Great Knife Strong ThroatProverbs 23 1. Consider carefully what is before you(2) And put a knife to thy throat.--Use the strongest methods to keep thine appetite in check, if thou art likely to give way to it, and then, overcome by meat and drink, to say or do anything to offend thy host.Verse 2. - And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. "Stab thy gluttony," Wordsworth. Restrain thyself by the strongest measures, convince thyself that thou art in the utmost peril, if thou art a glutton or wine bibber (Ecclus. 34 [31]:12). The LXX. gives a different turn to the injunction, "And apply (ἐπίβαλλε) thy hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such things." This is like the warning of Siracides, in the chapter quoted above, where the disciple is admonished not to attend the banquets of rich men, lest he should be tempted to vie with them, and thus ruin himself by attempting to return their civilities in the same lavish manner. The earlier commentators have used the above verses as a lesson concerning the due and reverent partaking of the Holy Communion, thus: "When you approach the table of Christ, consider diligently what is represented by the elements before you, and have discernment and faith, lest you eat and drink unworthily; and after communicating walk warily, mortify all evil desires, live as in the presence of the Lord Jesus, the Giver of the feast." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew and putוְשַׂמְתָּ֣ (wə·śam·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set a knife שַׂכִּ֣ין (śak·kîn) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7915: A knife to your throat בְּלֹעֶ֑ךָ (bə·lō·‘e·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3930: Probably throat if אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you אָֽתָּה׃ (’āt·tāh) Pronoun - second person masculine singular Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you possess בַּ֖עַל (ba·‘al) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1167: A master, a husband, owner a [great] appetite. נֶ֣פֶשׁ (ne·p̄eš) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion Links Proverbs 23:2 NIVProverbs 23:2 NLT Proverbs 23:2 ESV Proverbs 23:2 NASB Proverbs 23:2 KJV Proverbs 23:2 BibleApps.com Proverbs 23:2 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 23:2 Chinese Bible Proverbs 23:2 French Bible Proverbs 23:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 23:2 Put a knife to your throat if (Prov. 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