Bible verse
and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
Proverbs 23:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.
1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
KJV
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
ASV
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
ERV
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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