Proverbs 25:16
You have found honey—eat your sufficiency, || Lest you are satiated [with] it, and have vomited it.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15A ruler is persuaded by long-suffering, || And a soft tongue breaks a bone.
17Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house, || Lest he is satiated [with] you, and has hated you.
Cross References
Judges 14:8and he turns back after [some] days to take her, and turns aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, a swarm of bees [are] in the body of the lion—and honey.
Proverbs 23:8You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, || And have marred your words that [are] sweet.
Proverbs 25:27The eating of much honey is not good, || Nor a searching out of one’s own honor—honor.
Isaiah 7:22And it has come to pass, || He eats butter from the abundance of the yielding of milk, || For everyone who is left in the heart of the land eats butter and honey.
Ephesians 5:18and do not be drunk with wine, in which is wastefulness, but be filled in 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 →