Proverbs 25:16
Having found honey, eat only what is enough, 1 Lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
15In long-suffering is prosperity to kings, 1 And a soft tongue breaks the bones. 1
17Enter sparingly into thy friend’s house, 1 Lest he be satiated with thy company, and hate thee. 1
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey were in the mouth of the lion.
Proverbs 23:8For he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words. 1
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; 1 But it is right to honor venerable sayings. 1
Isaiah 7:22And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that everyone that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.
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 →