Proverbs 23:2
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great 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.

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;

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

Good News Translation
If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.

International Standard Version
Put a knife to your own throat, if you have a big appetite.

NET Bible
and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
Classic Translations
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.

King James 2000 Bible
And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

New Heart English Bible
put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

World English Bible
put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

American King James Version
And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.

American Standard Version
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

A Faithful Version
And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Darby Bible Translation
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

English Revised Version
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

Webster's Bible Translation
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou art a man given to appetite.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Measure thyne appetite if it be gredyly set.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
that are set before ye Measure thine appetite:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you have put a knife to your throat, "" If you [are] a man of appetite.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

Smith's Literal Translation
And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Lest you put a dagger to your mouth, if you are a man that breathes.

Lamsa Bible
That you may not put poison in your mouth. And if you are a man given to excessive appetite,

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable,
















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