Proverbs 23:2
Good News Translation
If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself.

New Revised Standard Version
and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.

Contemporary English Version
Don't go and stuff yourself! That would be just the same as cutting your throat.

New American Bible
Stick the knife in your gullet if you have a ravenous appetite.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

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And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

Proverbs 18:8,9 The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become 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.

Context
True Riches
1When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face: 2And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:1
When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face:

Proverbs 23:20
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Proverbs 23:1
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