Proverbs 23:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

New Living Translation
You will throw up what little you’ve eaten, and your compliments will be wasted.

English Standard Version
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

Berean Study Bible
You will vomit up what little 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.

NASB 1995
You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.

NASB 1977
You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.

Amplified Bible
The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, And you will waste your compliments.

Christian Standard Bible
You will vomit the little you’ve eaten and waste your pleasant words.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will vomit the little you've eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will vomit the little bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant conversation.

International Standard Version
You'll vomit up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will have been wasted.

NET Bible
you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

New King James Version
The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.

King James 2000 Bible
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.

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

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

American King James Version
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

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

A Faithful Version
The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and spoil your pleasant words.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yee ye morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou perbreake, and lese those swete wordes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, "" And have marred your words that [are] sweet.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thy morsel which thou didst eat thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy pleasant words.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the bread that you eat, you vomit, and you spoil your sweet words.

Lamsa Bible
The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will lose your sweet words.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

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
















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