Proverbs 23:8
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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.

Lexicon
You will vomit up
תְקִיאֶ֑נָּה (ṯə·qî·’en·nāh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6958: Spue out, vomit out, up, up again

what little
פִּֽתְּךָ־ (pit·tə·ḵā-)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6595: Fragment, bit, morsel

you have eaten
אָכַ֥לְתָּ (’ā·ḵal·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

and waste
וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ (wə·ši·ḥa·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

your pleasant
הַנְּעִימִֽים׃ (han·nə·‘î·mîm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5273: Pleasant, delightful

words.
דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ (də·ḇā·re·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause


Additional Translations
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

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

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

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

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

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

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.
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