Proverbs 23:2
And you have put a knife to your throat, || If you [are] a man of appetite.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
In Context
1When you sit to eat with a ruler, || Diligently consider that which [is] before you,
3Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
Cross References
Genesis 27:14And he goes, and takes, and brings to his mother, and his mother makes tasteful things, [such] as his father has loved;
1 Corinthians 9:27but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:2-4
Cautions against Luxury and Covetousness. 1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. The sin we are here warned against is luxury and sensuality, and the indulgence of the appetite in eating and drinking, a sin that most easily besets us. 1. We are here told when we enter into temptation, and are in most danger of falling into this sin: " When… Read the whole commentary →