Proverbs 25:16
If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
15With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.
17Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house: lest he be werie of thee, and so hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And within a short space after, as he wet thyther againe to take her to wife, he turned out of the way to see the carkasse of the Lion: And beholde, there was a swarme of bees and hony in the carkasse of the Lion.
Proverbs 23:8The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.
Proverbs 25:27As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.
Isaiah 7:22Then because of the aboundaunce of mylke that they geue he shall eate butter: so that euery one which remayneth in the lande shall eate butter and hony.
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 →