Proverbs 25:16
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
17Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
Cross References
Judges 14:8When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
Proverbs 23:8You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
Isaiah 7:22and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
Ephesians 5:18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the 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 →