Holy Scripture

Proverbs 23:8

A church father on this verse
“The food you have eaten you will vomit, etc. The perverse thoughts you had learned from heretics, you must either abandon by correction through repentance, or after death be compelled to suffer punishment for them, and lose the words of confession, by which, while they preached, you thought you should humbly favor the…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs

Source: Septuagint

Original

8For he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.

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In context

6Sup not with an envious man, Neither desire thou his meats:

7So he eats and drinks As if anyone should swallow a hair, And do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him:

— Proverbs 23:8 —

9Say nothing in the ears of a fool, Lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.

10Remove not the ancient landmarks; And enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:

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