Proverbs 25:16

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

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In The King James Version

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

In Context

15A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

17Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

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Cross References

Judges 14:8Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.

Proverbs 23:8The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

Proverbs 25:27It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Isaiah 7:22And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

Ephesians 5:18And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the 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 →

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