Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments. New Living Translation You will throw up what little you’ve eaten, and your compliments will be wasted. English Standard Version You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. Berean Standard Bible You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. King James Bible The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. New King James Version The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words. New American Standard Bible You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten And waste your compliments. NASB 1995 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments. NASB 1977 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments. Legacy Standard Bible You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And you will corrupt your pleasant words. Amplified Bible The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, And you will waste your compliments. Christian Standard Bible You will vomit the little you’ve eaten and waste your pleasant words. Holman Christian Standard Bible You will vomit the little you’ve eaten and waste your pleasant words. American Standard Version The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the bread that you eat, you vomit, and you spoil your sweet words. Brenton Septuagint Translation for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words. Contemporary English Version Each bite will come back up, and all your kind words will be wasted. Douay-Rheims Bible The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words. English Revised Version The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. GOD'S WORD® Translation You will vomit the little bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant conversation. Good News Translation You will vomit up what you have eaten, and all your flattery will be wasted. International Standard Version You'll vomit up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will have been wasted. JPS Tanakh 1917 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words. Literal Standard Version You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, | And have marred your words that [are] sweet. Majority Standard Bible You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. New American Bible The little you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will have wasted your agreeable words. NET Bible you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words. New Revised Standard Version You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words. New Heart English Bible The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words. Webster's Bible Translation The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. World English Bible You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. Young's Literal Translation Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet. Additional Translations ... Context True Riches…7for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. 9Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.… Cross References Proverbs 25:16 If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up. Proverbs 23:9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. Treasury of Scripture The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words. Jump to Previous Eaten Food Good Lose Marred Morsel Morsels Pleasant Pleasing Sweet Vomit Waste Wasted Wilt WordsJump to Next Eaten Food Good Lose Marred Morsel Morsels Pleasant Pleasing Sweet Vomit Waste Wasted Wilt WordsProverbs 23 1. Consider carefully what is before you(8) Shalt thou vomit up.--Shalt be disgusted at having partaken of hospitality which was not freely offered to thee. And lose thy sweet words.--All thy civil speeches and thanks for the cold welcome thou hast had. Verse 8. - The morsel which thou hast eaten shall thou vomit up. Food thus grudgingly bestowed will only create disgust, and do thee no good; thou wilt feel annoyed to have eaten it, and wilt long to get rid of it. And lose thy sweet words. You will have expended in vain your civil speeches and thanks for the entertainment provided for you; you really owe no gratitude for fare so grudgingly bestowed. Some think that by the "sweet words" are meant the conversation at table with which you have endeavoured to amuse your host - the witty sayings, enigmas, and apothegms, which entered so largely into the programme of a good talker. All such efforts are thrown away on the jealous, morose host. But the former explanation is more agreeable to the context.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew You will vomit upתְקִיאֶ֑נָּה (ṯə·qî·’en·nāh) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 6958: Spue out, vomit out, up, up again what little פִּֽתְּךָ־ (pit·tə·ḵā-) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 6595: Fragment, bit, morsel you have eaten אָכַ֥לְתָּ (’ā·ḵal·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat and waste וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ (wə·ši·ḥa·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin your pleasant הַנְּעִימִֽים׃ (han·nə·‘î·mîm) Article | Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 5273: Pleasant, delightful words. דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ (də·ḇā·re·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause Links Proverbs 23:8 NIVProverbs 23:8 NLT Proverbs 23:8 ESV Proverbs 23:8 NASB Proverbs 23:8 KJV Proverbs 23:8 BibleApps.com Proverbs 23:8 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 23:8 Chinese Bible Proverbs 23:8 French Bible Proverbs 23:8 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 23:8 The morsel which you have eaten you (Prov. 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