Proverbs 23:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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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

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.

Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, who will only despise the wisdom of your words.

Job 20:15

They swallow down riches and vomit them up again; God casts them out of their bellies.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.