Proverbs 23:8
you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
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12“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,
14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
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4You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.
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14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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17Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
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2and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
3Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
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12Words and Works of Wise Men and Fools The words of a wise person win him favor, but the words of a fool are self-destructive.
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2From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence.
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19You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive.
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7The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet.
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3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.
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8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.
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17For you hate instruction and reject my words.
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8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; and they have gone down into the person’s innermost being.
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20From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied, with the product of his lips he will be satisfied.
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
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33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
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24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.
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2if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,
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5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
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8“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.
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7For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.
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17“Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!”
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11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
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13Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
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18For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
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38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
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13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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3For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
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28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
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28A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
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6For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.
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23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
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31The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.
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17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.
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23Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the LORD your God as a freewill offering.
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6Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and prove you to be a liar.
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11Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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22Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.