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Proverbs 23:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Proverbs 23:2

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1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

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

3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

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"If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”"

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Proverbs 23:1

"When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;"

Proverbs 23:3

"Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food."

Proverbs 23:4

"Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint."

Proverbs 23:5

"Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky."

Proverbs 23:6

"Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,"

Proverbs 23:7

"for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you."

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