Proverbs 23:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • 9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

  • Prov 23:6-7
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    6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

    7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

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    16Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

    17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

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    12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

    13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

    14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

    15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

    16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • 4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • 14Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

  • 17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Prov 23:2-3
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    2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

    3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

  • 12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

  • 2A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

  • 19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • 7The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • 3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

  • 8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

  • 17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

  • 8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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    20A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

  • 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • 2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

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    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

    6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • 8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

  • 7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

  • 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • 17Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

  • 13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

  • 18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  • 38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

  • 3For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

  • 28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

  • 28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

  • 6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

  • 23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

  • 31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

  • 17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

  • 23That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

  • 6Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

  • 11As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

  • 22And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.