How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 24:13 - New Revised Standard Version My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; And the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My son, eat honey, because it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. American Standard Version (1901) My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: Common English Bible My child, eat honey, for it is good. The honeycomb is sweet in your mouth. Catholic Public Domain Version My son, eat honey, because it is good, and the honeycomb, because it is so sweet to your throat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Fat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat: |
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb.
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or else, having too much, you will vomit it.
The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.
Your lips distill nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
I come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love.
He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Now John wore clothing of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.
But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the troops with the oath; so he extended the staff that was in his hand, and dipped the tip of it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.