Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey: eat so much as is sufficient for thee: lest thou consume too much of it, and have to vomit it forth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh bones.
17Make thy foot scarce in the house of thy friend: lest he have too much of thee, and so hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And when he returned after a time to take her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the carcass of the lion and honey likewise.
Proverbs 23:8Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou spit out, and thou hast wasted thy pleasant words.
Proverbs 25:27To eat too much honey is not good: so is it honor to set a limit to men's honor.
Isaiah 7:22And it shall happen, that for the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat cream; for cream and honey shall eat every one 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 →