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Proverbs 23:8-10
Common English Bible
Proverbs 23:8-10
Common English Bible
8 You will eat scraps and vomit them out.
You will waste your pleasant words.
9 Don’t speak in the ears of fools,
for they will scorn your insightful words.
10 Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker;
don’t invade the fields of orphans,
Proverbs 23:8-10
New International Version
Proverbs 23:8-10
New International Version
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments.
Saying 10
9 Do not speak to fools,
for they will scorn your prudent words.(A)
Saying 11
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone(B)
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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