Proverbs 25:16
You have discovered honey; eat what is sufficient for you, lest perhaps, being filled up, you may vomit it.
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In Context
15By patience, a leader shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
17Withdraw your feet from the house of your neighbor, lest, when he has had his fill, he may hate you.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after some days, returning to marry her, he turned aside so that he might see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, with a honeycomb.
Proverbs 23:8The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.
Proverbs 25:27Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.
Isaiah 7:22and, instead of an abundance of milk, he will eat butter. For all who are left behind in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.
Ephesians 5:18And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy 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 →