Proverbs 25:16
Have thou found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15By long-suffering a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
17Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after a while he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Proverbs 23:8The morsel which thou have eaten thou shall vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.
Isaiah 7:22And it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter. For everyone who is left in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.
Ephesians 5:18And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:16
Miscellaneous Maxims. 15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Two things are here recommended to us, in dealing with others, as likely means to gain our point:—1. Patience, to bear a present heat without being put into a heat by it, and to wait for a fit opportunity to offer our reasons and to give persons time to consider them. By this means even a prince may be persuaded to do a thing which he seemed very averse to, much more a common person. That which is justice and… Read the whole commentary →