Proverbs 25:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest, being filled with it, you vomit it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ If you find honey, eat just the right amount; otherwise, you’ll get full and vomit it up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You have discovered honey; eat what is sufficient for you, lest perhaps, being filled up, you may vomit it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

Proverbs 25:16 Cross References

Proverbs 23:8

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Proverbs 25:17

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Ecclesiastes 7:16

Be not righteous over much, neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Isaiah 7:22

and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

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.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;