Proverbs 23:8
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New International Version (©1984)
You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You will throw up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will be wasted.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will vomit the little bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant conversation.

King James Bible
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

American King James Version
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

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

Bible in Basic English
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

English Revised Version
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Webster's Bible Translation
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

Geneva Study Bible

The {f} morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

(f) He will not cease till he has done you some harm, and his flattering words will come to no use.

Wesley's Notes

23:8 Vomit up - When thou perceivest his churlish disposition, his meat will be loathsome to thee. Sweet words - Thy pleasant discourse wherewith thou didst design to delight and profit him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. The morsel . words-that is, disgusted with his true character, all pleasant intercourse will be destroyed.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-3 God's restraints of the appetite only say, Do thyself no harm. 4,5. Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long. 6-8. Do not make thyself burdensome to any, especially those not sincere. When we are called by God to his feast, and to let our souls delight themselves, Isa 25:6; 55:2, we may safely partake of the Bread of life. 9. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of Divine things; but if what a wise man says will not be heard, let him hold his peace. 10,11. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty.


Proverbs 25:16 Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, That you not have it in excess and vomit it. (NASB ©1995)

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

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