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Proverbs 23:8

World English Bible

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
and lose your good words.

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Proverbs 23:8 in other translations

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

Proverbs 23:8 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 23:8 in context

  1. 6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
    and don’t crave his delicacies:
  2. 7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his heart is not with you.
  3. 8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
    and lose your good words.
  4. 9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
    for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
  5. 10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.
    Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,