Proverbs 25:16
Good News Translation
Never eat more honey than you need; too much may make you vomit.

New Revised Standard Version
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or else, having too much, you will vomit it.

Contemporary English Version
Eating too much honey can make you sick.

New American Bible
If you find honey, eat only what you need, lest you have your fill and vomit it up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

hath

Proverbs 24:13,14 Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat. . . .

Judges 14:8,9 And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and a honey-comb. . . .

1 Samuel 14:25-27 And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground. . . .

Isaiah 7:15,22 He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good. . . .

lest

Proverbs 26:27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Proverbs 23:8 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
15By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness. 16Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.17Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.…
Cross References
Judges 14:8
And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and a honey-comb.

1 Samuel 14:25
And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground.

Proverbs 23:8
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Proverbs 24:13
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.

Proverbs 25:17
Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.

Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.

Proverbs 25:15
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