Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

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Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

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.

ASV

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

BBE

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

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Matthew Henry · Verse 16

God has given us leave to use grateful things, but we are cautioned against excess.

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.