Proverbs 25:16
If you find honey, eat just enough, for if you eat too much, you'll be sick.
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15If you're patient you can persuade your superior, and soft words can break down opposition.
Cross References
Judges 14:8Later on when Samson returned to marry her, he turned off the road to look for the lion's carcass. Inside the body was a swarm of bees and their honey.
Proverbs 23:8You'll vomit up the little pieces you've eaten, and your kind words of appreciation will be wasted.
Proverbs 25:27It's not good to eat too much honey, or to want too much praise.
Isaiah 7:22will eat curds, because they produce so much milk—for everyone who survives in the land will eat curds and honey.
Ephesians 5:18Don't get drunk on wine which will wreck your life, but 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 →