Translations
Modern
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Traditional
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Literal
Your morsel that you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will ruin your pleasant words!
Latin
Cibos quos comederas evomes, et perdes pulchros sermones tuos.
Interlinear
Hebrew
English
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Notes
Proverbs highly values generosity (Proverbs 11:24–26; 21:13; 22:9).
This section is attributed to a group known as the wise, but their identity is unknown. There is a mention of thirty sayings (Proverbs 22:20). The wisdom sayings that follow can be divided into thirty sections. These sections are similar to an Egyptian work called the Instruction of Amenemope, which is also divided into thirty chapters.
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