Proverbs 25:16
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 honey-comb.
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. Majesty... Viz., of God. For to search into that incomprehensible Majesty, and to pretend to sound the depths of the wisdom of God, is exposing our weak understanding to be blinded with an excess of light and glory, which it cannot comprehend.
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 →