Parallel Verses

NET Bible

and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.

New American Standard Bible

And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


For you will put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.

Bible in Basic English

And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a {big appetite}.

Modern King James verseion

and put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Measure thine appetite:

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And put
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

a knife
שׂכּין 
Sakkiyn 
Usage: 1

to thy throat
לע 
Loa` 
Usage: 1

if thou be a man given
בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

References

Easton

Context Readings

Living With Your Neighbor

1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, 2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. 3 Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive.



Cross References

Matthew 18:8-9

If 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 or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

1 Corinthians 9:27

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

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