Proverbs 24:13
Good News Translation
My child, eat honey; it is good. And just as honey from the comb is sweet on your tongue,

New Revised Standard Version
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

Contemporary English Version
Honey is good for you, my children, and it tastes sweet.

New American Bible
If you eat honey, my son, because it is good, if pure honey is sweet to your taste,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Proverbs 25:16,27 Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up. . . .

Songs 5:1 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

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

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

to the taste or upon thy palate

Context
Do not Envy
12If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works. 13Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.14So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.…
Cross References
Psalm 19:10
More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

Psalm 119:103
How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.

Proverbs 16:24
Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

Proverbs 27:7
A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.

Songs 4:11
Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Songs 5:1
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Proverbs 24:12
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