Proverbs 23:8

In 11 translations

BSB

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

KJV

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

WEB

You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

ASV

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

LSV

You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, || And have marred your words that [are] sweet.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

פִּֽתְּךָ־אָכַ֥לְתָּ תְקִיאֶ֑נָּה וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ הַנְּעִימִֽים׃

LXX-Br

ἐξεμέσει γὰρ αὐτὸν, καὶ λυμανεῖται τοὺς λόγους σου τοὺς καλούς.

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