Proverbs 23:8
Good News Translation
You will vomit up what you have eaten, and all your flattery will be wasted.

New Revised Standard Version
You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words.

Contemporary English Version
Each bite will come back up, and all your kind words will be wasted.

New American Bible
The little you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will have wasted your agreeable words.

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

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

Context
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7Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee. 8The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.9Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.…
Cross References
Proverbs 25:16
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.

Proverbs 23:7
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