8The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.


In Context

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:

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

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

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

10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Proverbs 23:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:8The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:8You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:8The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.