Proverbs 23:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Prov 23:9
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    9Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 23:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

    7For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

  • Prov 25:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

    17Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Job 20:12-16
    5 verses
    75%

    12Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

    13Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

    14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

    15He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

    16He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

  • Ps 52:4
    74%

    4Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

  • Mic 6:14
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    14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Prov 20:17
    74%

    17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.

  • Prov 23:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

    3Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

  • Eccl 10:12
    73%

    12The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

  • Prov 13:2
    73%

    2A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

  • Ps 50:19
    72%

    19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Prov 27:7
    72%

    7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Ps 36:3
    71%

    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Isa 28:8
    71%

    8For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

  • Ps 50:17
    71%

    17Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

  • Prov 18:8
    71%

    8The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

  • Prov 18:20-21
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    71%

    20With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

  • Prov 23:33
    71%

    33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Prov 6:2
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    2You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

    6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

  • Prov 9:17
    70%

    17Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Matt 15:17
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    17Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

  • Prov 24:13
    70%

    13My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

  • Prov 22:18
    70%

    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • Lev 26:38
    70%

    38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Job 15:13
    70%

    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 34:3
    70%

    3For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

  • Lev 18:28
    70%

    28So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Prov 26:28
    70%

    28A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.

  • Isa 32:6
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    6For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

  • Job 20:23
    70%

    23God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

  • Prov 10:31
    69%

    31The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

  • Job 36:17
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  • Deut 23:23
    69%

    23Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 30:6
    69%

    6Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

  • Prov 26:11
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    11Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

  • Ezek 24:22
    69%

    22And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.