Proverbs 23:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Proverbs 23:8 Cross References

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Proverbs 23:9

Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Proverbs 25:16

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.