Proverbs 25:16
Having found honey, eat only what is enough, lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
15In long-suffering is prosperity to kings, and a soft tongue breaks the bones.
17Enter sparingly into thy friend's house, lest he be satiated with thy company, and hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after + 14:8 Gr. days.some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey were in the mouth of the lion.
Proverbs 23:8for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; but it is right to honour venerable sayings.
Isaiah 7:22And it shall come to pass from their + 7:22 Alex. ποιεῖν, 'giving.'drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.
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 →