Proverbs 20:14
Good News Translation
The customer always complains that the price is too high, but then he goes off and brags about the bargain he got.

New Revised Standard Version
“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, then goes away and boasts.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone likes to brag about getting a bargain.

New American Bible
“Bad, bad!” says the buyer, then goes away only to boast.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.

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It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.

it is naught

Ecclesiastes 1:10 Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.

Hosea 12:7,8 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:6 And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
13Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. 14It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.15There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.…
Cross References
Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.

Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.

Proverbs 20:13
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