Proverbs 23:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.

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  • 9Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 23:6-7
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    6Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, And don't crave his delicacies:

    7For as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

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    16Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, Lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

    17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

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    12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

    13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

    14Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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

    16He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

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

  • 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; And that which you save I will give up to the sword.

  • 17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

  • Prov 23:2-3
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    2Put a knife to your throat, If you are a man given to appetite.

    3Don't be desirous of his dainties, Seeing they are deceitful food.

  • 12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

  • 2By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; But the unfaithful crave violence.

  • 19"You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit.

  • 7A full soul loathes a honeycomb; But to a 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 throw my words behind you?

  • 8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: They go down into a person's innermost parts.

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    20A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

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

  • 33Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • 24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • 2You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

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    5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

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

  • 8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

  • 7For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 17"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

  • 11You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • 17Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

  • 13My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

  • 18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.

  • 38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will 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 palate tastes food.

  • 28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

  • 28A lying tongue hates those it hurts; And a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • 6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

  • 23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

  • 31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the perverse tongue will be cut off.

  • 17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • 23That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

  • 6Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

  • 11As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.

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