OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Proverbs 23:8

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You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten

and waste your pleasant words.

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Proverbs 23:5–11

5

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?

For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

6

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,

and don’t crave his delicacies,

7

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

but his heart is not with you.

8
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You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten

and waste your pleasant words.

9

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,

for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

10

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.

Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

11

for their Defender is strong.

He will plead their case against you.

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