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The little you eat you will vomit up,
    and your compliments will have been wasted.

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
    for he will only despise the common sense in your words.

10 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
    or encroach on the land of the fatherless;

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You will (A)vomit up [a]the morsel you have eaten,
And you will corrupt your pleasant words.

(B)Do not speak in the [b]hearing of a fool,
For he will (C)despise the insight of your speech.

10 Do not move the ancient boundary
And do not (D)come into the fields of the orphans,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:8 Lit your
  2. Proverbs 23:9 Lit ears