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Proverbs 23:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Proverbs 23:8

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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 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,

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