Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
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In Context
15By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
Cross References
Judges 14:8After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Proverbs 23:8You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
Isaiah 7:22It 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.
Ephesians 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with 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 →