Parallel Verses
Amplified
Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need,
Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.
New American Standard Bible
That you not have it in excess and vomit it.
King James Version
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Holman Bible
otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit.
International Standard Version
If you find some honey, eat only what you need. Take too much, and you'll vomit.
A Conservative Version
Have thou found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.
American Standard Version
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Bible in Basic English
If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
Darby Translation
Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.
King James 2000
Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[If] you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.
Modern King James verseion
Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou findest honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be overfull, and parbreak it out again.
NET Bible
When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.
New Heart English Bible
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
The Emphasized Bible
Honey having found, eat to suffice thee, lest thou loathe it, and vomit it forth.
Webster
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.
World English Bible
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
Youngs Literal Translation
Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.
Themes
Honey » Moderation needful in the use of
Social duties » Temperance pr 23; isa 5; 28; da 1 » General references to
Temperance » Pr 23; isa 5; 28; da 1 » General references to
Temperance » In relation to food in relation to speech » Appetites to be restrained
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
More Proverbs Of Solomon
15
By patience and a calm spirit a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft and gentle tongue breaks the bone [of resistance].
Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need,
Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.
Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become tired of you and hate you.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.
Judges 14:8-9
When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.
1 Samuel 14:25-27
All the people of the land came to a forest, and there was honey on the ground.
Proverbs 23:8
The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up,
And you will waste your compliments.
Proverbs 24:13-14
My son, eat honey, because it is good,
And the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Isaiah 7:15
He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
Isaiah 7:22
and because of the abundance of milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone that is left in the land will eat [only] curds and [wild] honey.
Luke 21:34
Ephesians 5:18
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is wickedness (corruption, stupidity), but be filled with the [Holy] Spirit and constantly guided by Him.