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Thoughts Proverbs 23 1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what’s in front of you.2Put a knife to your throat if you like to eat too much.Proverbs 23:1-2 NIRV Design: Steve Webb | Photo: Rebecca on Unsplash This proverb was written when many rulers were actually all-powerful tyrants. A clearer translation of verse one would read something like this: When you sit down to eat with an all-powerful tyrant, consider very, very carefully who (not what) you are with. And then the phrase that really caught my attention is in verse two: Put a knife to your throat if you like to eat too much. The expression “put a knife to your throat” is an idiom that means “curb your appetite” or “control yourself”. To be in the presence of all all-powerful tyrant and indulge in one’s appetites could be very, very risky. If the tyrant  thought you were taking too much, it would mean little or nothing to them to order your death. Proverbs 24 11Save those who are being led away to death. Hold