Proverbs 25:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Proverbs 25:16 Cross References

Proverbs 25:27

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

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

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 midst of the land.

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Proverbs 23:8

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

Proverbs 25:17

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

Ecclesiastes 7:16

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