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23 If you sit down to eat with a ruler,
    notice the food that is in front of you.
Control yourself
    if you have a big appetite.

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Saying 7

23 When you sit to dine with a ruler,
    note well what[a] is before you,
and put a knife to your throat
    if you are given to gluttony.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:1 Or who