Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit. New Living Translation Do you like honey? Don’t eat too much, or it will make you sick! English Standard Version If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it. Berean Standard Bible If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up. King James Bible Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. New King James Version Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be filled with it and vomit. New American Standard Bible Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, So that you do not have it in excess and vomit it. NASB 1995 Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, That you not have it in excess and vomit it. NASB 1977 Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, Lest you have it in excess and vomit it. Legacy Standard Bible Have you found honey? Eat only enough for you, Lest you have more than your fill and vomit it. Amplified Bible Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need, Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it. Christian Standard Bible If you find honey, eat only what you need; otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit. Holman Christian Standard Bible If you find honey, eat only what you need; otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit. American Standard Version Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Whenever you have found honey, eat enough for you, lest when you are full, you vomit it. Brenton Septuagint Translation Having found honey, eat only what is enough, lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up. Contemporary English Version Eating too much honey can make you sick. Douay-Rheims Bible Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up. English Revised Version Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. GOD'S WORD® Translation When you find honey, eat only as much as you need. Otherwise, you will have too much and vomit. Good News Translation Never eat more honey than you need; too much may make you vomit. International Standard Version If you find some honey, eat only what you need. Take too much, and you'll vomit. JPS Tanakh 1917 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. Literal Standard Version You have found honey—eat your sufficiency, | Lest you are satiated [with] it, and have vomited it. Majority Standard Bible If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up. New American Bible If you find honey, eat only what you need, lest you have your fill and vomit it up. NET Bible When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up. New Revised Standard Version If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or else, having too much, you will vomit it. New Heart English Bible Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it. Webster's Bible Translation Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it. World English Bible Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it. Young's Literal Translation Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context More Proverbs of Solomon…15Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. 16If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up. 17Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.… Cross References Judges 14:8 When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion's carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey. 1 Samuel 14:25 Then all the troops entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground. Proverbs 23:8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. Proverbs 24:13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. Proverbs 25:17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house, lest he grow weary and hate you. Ecclesiastes 7:16 Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Treasury of Scripture Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it. hath Proverbs 24:13,14 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: … Judges 14:8,9 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion… 1 Samuel 14:25-27 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground… lest Proverbs 26:27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. Proverbs 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Jump to Previous Able Eat Enough Excess Fear Filled Find Found Full Honey Need Sated Satiated Sufficiency Sufficient Therewith Vomit VomitedJump to Next Able Eat Enough Excess Fear Filled Find Found Full Honey Need Sated Satiated Sufficiency Sufficient Therewith Vomit VomitedProverbs 25 1. observations about kings8. and about avoiding causes of quarrels (16) Hast thou found honey?--A common occurrence in Palestine, where swarms of wild bees abounded in the woods. (Comp. Judges 14:8; 1Samuel 14:27.) Hence came the expression of a "land flowing with (milk and) honey."Verse 16. - Hast thou found honey? Honey would be found in crevices of rocks, in hollow trees (1 Samuel 14:27), or in more unlikely situations (Judges 14:8), and was extensively used as an article of food. All travellers in Palestine note the great abundance of bees therein, and how well it answers to its description as "a land flowing with milk and honey." Eat so much as is sufficient for thee. The agreeable sweetness of honey might lead the finder to eat too much of it. Against such excess the moralist warns: Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. Thus wrote Pindar, 'Nem.,' 7:51 - Ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἀνάπαυσις ἐν παντὶ γλυκεῖα ἔργῳκόρον δ ἔχει "Men are with all things sated - sleep, and love, "Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, Hebrew If you findמָ֭צָאתָ (mā·ṣā·ṯā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present honey, דְּבַ֣שׁ (də·ḇaš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1706: Honey, syrup eat אֱכֹ֣ל (’ĕ·ḵōl) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat just what you need, דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ (day·ye·kā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1767: Sufficiency, enough lest פֶּן־ (pen-) Conjunction Strong's 6435: Removal, lest you have too much תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ (tiś·bā·‘en·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited and vomit it up. וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃ (wa·hă·qê·ṯōw) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 6958: Spue out, vomit out, up, up again Links Proverbs 25:16 NIVProverbs 25:16 NLT Proverbs 25:16 ESV Proverbs 25:16 NASB Proverbs 25:16 KJV Proverbs 25:16 BibleApps.com Proverbs 25:16 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 25:16 Chinese Bible Proverbs 25:16 French Bible Proverbs 25:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 25:16 Have you found honey? 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