Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? 2 Eat as much as is sufficient for you, 2 lest you eat too much, and vomit it. 1
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15By patience a ruler is persuaded. 2 A soft tongue breaks the bone. 1
17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, 2 lest he be weary of you, and hate you. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 23:8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, 2 and lose your good words. 1
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; 2 nor is it kavod ·weighty glory· to seek one’s own kavod ·weighty glory·. 1
Isaiah 7:22and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within 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 →