Proverbs 23:8

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Proverbs 23:8

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Berean Standard Bible

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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KJV

King James Version

The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

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WEB

World English Bible

You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Proverbs 23

⁶ Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

⁷ for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁸ You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

⁹ Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰ Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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