Proverbs 25:16
Honey thou hast found — eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated [with] it, and hast vomited it.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.
17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated [with] thee, and have hated thee.
Cross References
Judges 14:8and he turneth back after [some] days to take her, and turneth aside to see the carcase of the lion, and lo, a company of bees [are] in the body of the lion — and honey.
Proverbs 23:8Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that [are] sweet.
Proverbs 25:27The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour — honour.
Isaiah 7:22And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.
Ephesians 5:18and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in 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 →