Proverbs 25:16
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Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

hath

Proverbs 24:13,14 Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat. . . .

Judges 14:8,9 And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and a honey-comb. . . .

1 Samuel 14:25-27 And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground. . . .

Isaiah 7:15,22 He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good. . . .

lest

Proverbs 26:27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Proverbs 23:8 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
15By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness. 16Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.17Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.…
Cross References
Judges 14:8
And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and a honey-comb.

1 Samuel 14:25
And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground.

Proverbs 23:8
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

Proverbs 24:13
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.

Proverbs 25:17
Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.

Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.

Lexicon
If you find
מָ֭צָאתָ (mā·ṣā·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

honey,
דְּבַ֣שׁ (də·ḇaš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1706: Honey, syrup

eat
אֱכֹ֣ל (’ĕ·ḵōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

just what you need,
דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ (day·ye·kā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1767: Sufficiency, enough

lest
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 6435: Removal, lest

you have too much
תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ (tiś·bā·‘en·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

and vomit it up.
וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃ (wa·hă·qê·ṯōw)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6958: Spue out, vomit out, up, up again


Additional Translations
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.

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

Having found honey, eat only what is enough, lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up.

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

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

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

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.
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