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

◄ Proverbs 23:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

English Standard Version
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

New American Standard Bible
You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will vomit the little you've eaten and waste your pleasant words.

International Standard Version
You'll vomit up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will have been wasted.

American Standard Version
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

23:1-3 God's restraints of the appetite only say, Do thyself no harm. 4,5. Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long. 6-8. Do not make thyself burdensome to any, especially those not sincere. When we are called by God to his feast, and to let our souls delight themselves, Isa 25:6; 55:2, we may safely partake of the Bread of life. 9. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of Divine things; but if what a wise man says will not be heard, let him hold his peace. 10,11. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. The morsel … words—that is, disgusted with his true character, all pleasant intercourse will be destroyed.