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Proverbs 25:16

In 11 translations

BSB
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
KJV
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
WEB
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
ASV
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
LSV
You have found honey—eat your sufficiency, || Lest you are satiated [with] it, and have vomited it.
YLT
Honey thou hast found — eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated [with] it, and hast vomited it.
DBY
Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.
DRC
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.
GNV
If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, and vomit it.
JPS
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
LXXE
Having found honey, eat only what is enough, lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up.

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Original-language editions

WLC
דְּבַ֣שׁ מָ֭צָאתָ אֱכֹ֣ל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ פֶּן־תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Μέλι εὑρὼν φάγε τὸ ἱκανὸν, μή ποτε πλησθεὶς ἐξεμέσῃς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
  • Ephesians 5:18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
  • Proverbs 24:13–14Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
  • Isaiah 7:15By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
  • 1 Samuel 14:25–27Then all the troops entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground. And when they entered the forest and saw the flowing honey, not one of them put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath. Jonathan,…
  • Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
  • Judges 14:8–9When 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. So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when…
  • Isaiah 7:22and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
  • Proverbs 23:8You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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