Proverbs 23:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 5 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and your complimentary words will be wasted.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

Common English Bible

⁸ You will eat scraps and vomit them out. You will waste your pleasant words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.

Proverbs 23:8 Cross References

Job 20:15

0 And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.

Proverbs 23:9

6 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.

Proverbs 25:16

3 The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

Jeremiah 12:6

4 Thus saith the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.