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Proverbs 23:8

Proverbs 23:8 is verse 8 of Proverbs chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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

You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

Proverbs 23:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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

10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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