Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.
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In Context
15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.
Proverbs 23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Isaiah 7:22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Ephesians 5:18And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; 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 →