Proverbs 23:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

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  • 9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 23:6-7
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    6Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies:

    7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: "Eat and drink," he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

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    16Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

    17Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

  • Job 20:12-16
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    12Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

    13Though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it still within his mouth,

    14Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the venom of asps within him.

    15He has 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.

  • 4You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • 17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Prov 23:2-3
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    2And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

    3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

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

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

  • 19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • 7The full soul loathes honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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

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

  • 17Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

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

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    20A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; he will be filled with the produce of his lips.

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

  • 33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • 2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

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    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • 8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

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

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

  • 11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • 17Do you not yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the waste?

  • 13My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

  • 18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

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

  • 13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 3For the ear tries words as the mouth tastes food.

  • 28That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

  • 28A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • 6For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make the soul of the hungry empty, 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 brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

  • 17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • 23That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

  • 6Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

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

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