Saying 7
Proverbs 23:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
- KJV
- And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
- WEB
- put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
- ASV
- And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
- LSV
- And you have put a knife to your throat, || If you [are] a man of appetite.
- YLT
- And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou [art] a man of appetite.
- DBY
- and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
- DRC
- And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
- GNV
- And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
- JPS
- And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
- LXXE
- and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable,
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ שַׂכִּ֣ין בְּלֹעֶ֑ךָ אִם־בַּ֖עַל נֶ֣פֶשׁ אָֽתָּה׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἐπίβαλλε τὴν χεῖρά σου, εἰδὼς ὅτι τοιαῦτά σε δεῖ παρασκευάσαι· εἰ δὲ ἀπληστότερος εἶ,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
- Matthew 18:8–9If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye…
- 1 Corinthians 9:27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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