Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
15By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
17Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated with thee, and hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after a while he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Proverbs 23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.
Isaiah 7:22and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat curd; for curd and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.
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 →