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Proverbs 23:8
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
Proverbs 23:8 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 23:8 in other translations
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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In context
5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
7 For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
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