Proverbs 23:8 · World English Bible
Proverbs 23:8 Meaning The Morsel Which You Have Eaten You
The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
What does Proverbs 23:8 mean?
Whatever the mind takes in from fear cannot be kept, because it does not belong to what the mind truly is, and so it is finally cast back out. The gladness spoken over such a meal is spent for nothing, since kind words given to an alliance built on grievance were never resting on anything real.
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Whatever the mind takes in from fear cannot be kept, because it does not belong to what the mind truly is, and so it is finally cast back out. The gladness spoken over such a meal is spent for nothing, since kind words given to an alliance built on grievance were never resting on anything real.
This is the mercy hidden in the ego's failures. What is false will not stay down, and every attempt to feed on judgment ends by returning it, leaving the mind emptied of a bargain it should never have made. A person is meant to be nourished only by what is true.
Morsel: the small portion of fear the mind swallowed, the belief taken in that the self cannot digest Sweet words: the kindness spent on a false alliance, the goodwill wasted on what was built from grievance
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Live Proverbs 23:8 today
- If you agreed to something today only to keep the peace, say so now, kindly, before the resentment has time to set.
- When a friendship runs mostly on complaining about the same third person, change the subject once and see what is left underneath.
- If you find yourself being charming to someone you quietly resent, drop the extra sweetness. Plain and civil is easier to live with.
What have you been swallowing that your body already knows it cannot keep down?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Dhammapada
He who holds back rising anger is the real charioteer of himself. The rest are only holding the reins.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The mind that takes in resentment poisons its own water supply. Nothing outside you did that part.
Taoism · Zhuangzi
What is forced never holds. A thing out of keeping with your nature works its way back out, no matter how carefully you swallowed it.
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