Proverbs 25:16
If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, and vomit it.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
15A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.
17Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house, least he be weary of thee, and hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And within a fewe dayes, when he returned to receiue her, he went aside to see the karkeis of the Lion: and behold, there was a swarme of bees, and hony in the body of the Lyon.
Proverbs 23:8Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.
Isaiah 7:22And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.
Ephesians 5:18And be not drunke with wine, wherein is excesse: but be fulfilled 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 →