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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Brenton's Septuagint

Proverbs 23:8

for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Guest;   Hospitality;   Hypocrisy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   The Topic Concordance - Consideration;   Desire;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will vomit the little you’ve eatenand waste your pleasant words.
Hebrew Names Version
The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.
King James Version
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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.
New Century Version
You will throw up the little you have eaten, and you will have wasted your kind words.
Amplified Bible
The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, And you will waste your compliments.
World English Bible
The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
Legacy Standard Bible
You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten,And you will corrupt your pleasant words.
Berean Standard Bible
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Contemporary English Version
Each bite will come back up, and all your kind words will be wasted.
Complete Jewish Bible
The little you eat you will vomit up, and your compliments will have been wasted.
Darby Translation
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
Easy-to-Read Version
And if you eat their food, you will get sick and be embarrassed.
George Lamsa Translation
The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will lose your sweet words.
Good News Translation
You will vomit up what you have eaten, and all your flattery will be wasted.
Lexham English Bible
Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.
Literal Translation
You shall vomit the bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee ye morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou perbreake, and lese those swete wordes.
American Standard Version
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
Bible in Basic English
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
King James Version (1611)
The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.
English Revised Version
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt brake out the metis, whiche thou hast ete; and thou schalt leese thi faire wordis.
Update Bible Version
The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your sweet words.
Webster's Bible Translation
The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
New English Translation
you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
New King James Version
The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.
New Living Translation
You will throw up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will be wasted.
New Life Bible
You will spit up the piece of food you have eaten, and waste your good words.
New Revised Standard
You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt lose thy beautiful words.
Revised Standard Version
You will vomit up the morsels 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.

Contextual Overview

6 Sup not with an envious man, neither desire thou his meats: 7 so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him: 8 for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Judges 16:10 - now tell me Job 20:15 - swallowed Proverbs 25:16 - lest

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
And the life of Sarrha was an hundred and twenty-seven years.
Genesis 23:2
And Sarrha died in the city of Arboc, which is in the valley, this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan; and Abraam came to lament for Sarrha and to mourn.
Genesis 23:3
And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,
Genesis 23:4
I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.
Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, in the field of Ephron the son of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre:
1 Kings 2:17
And he said to her, Speak, I pray thee, to king Solomon, for he will not turn away his face from thee, and let him give me Abisag the Somanite for a wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The morsel [which] thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomit up,.... It shall turn in thy stomach, thou shall not be able to keep it, when thou understandest thou art not welcome; or thou wilt wish thou hadst never eaten a bit, or that thou couldest vomit up what thou hast; so disagreeable is the thought of being unwelcome, or when this appears to be the case;

and lose thy sweet words; expressed in thankfulness to the master of the feast, in praise of his food, in pleasantry with him, and the other guests at table; all which are repented of when a man finds he is not welcome.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 23:8. The morsel which thou hast eaten — On reflection thou wilt even blame thyself for having accepted his invitation.


 
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