Proverbs 25:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.

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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

You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words.

Proverbs 25:17

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest the neighbor become weary of you and hate you.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey or to seek honor on top of honor.

Ecclesiastes 7:16

Do not be too righteous, and do not act too wise; why should you destroy yourself?

Isaiah 7:15

He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Isaiah 7:22

and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds and honey.

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,