Proverbs 25:16
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
17Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after some days returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion and a honeycomb.
Proverbs 23:8The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
Proverbs 25:27As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be overwhelmed by glory.
Isaiah 7:22And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.
Ephesians 5:18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury; but be ye 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 →