Proverbs 23:8
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
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16 If 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.
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12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
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4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
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14 You 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.
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17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
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2 And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
3 Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
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12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.
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2 A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.
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19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
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7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
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3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.
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8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.
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17 Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
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8 The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
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20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
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33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
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24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
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2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
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5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
6 It 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.
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8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
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7 For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.
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17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
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11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
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17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
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13 My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:
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18 For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
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38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.
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13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
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3 For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
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28 So 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.
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28 A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
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6 For 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.
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23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
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31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.
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23 Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.
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6 Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.
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11 Like 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.
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22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.