Proverbs 23:8

23:8 you will vomit up ¹  the little bit you have eaten,

and will have wasted your pleasant words. ² 

¹ sn Eating and drinking with a selfish miser would be irritating and disgusting. The line is hyperbolic; the whole experience turns the stomach.

² tn Or “your compliments” (so NASB, NIV); cf. TEV “your flattery.”