Proverbs 23:8 (BSB)

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:6-8: Those that are voluptuous and given to appetite (Pro 23:2) are glad to be where there is good cheer stirring, and those that are covetous and saving, that they may spare at home, will be glad to get a dinner at another man's table; and therefore both are here advised not to be forward to accept of every man's invitation, but especially not to thrust themselves in uninvited. Observe, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:8: The morsel which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomit up,.... It shall turn in thy stomach, thou shall not be able to keep it, when thou understandest thou art not welcome; or thou wilt wish thou hadst never eaten a bit, or that thou couldest vomit up what thou hast; so disagreeable is the thought of being unwelcome, or when this appears to be the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:8: The morsel . . . words--that is, disgusted with his true character, all pleasant intercourse will be destroyed.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:8: The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. (f) He will not cease till he has done you some harm, and his flattering words will come to no use.