Proverbs 24:13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

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

New American Standard Bible
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;

King James Bible
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

International Standard Version
My son, eat honey, because it's good for you; indeed, drippings from the honeycomb are sweet to your taste;

American Standard Version
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:

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

Darby Bible Translation
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste:

Young's Literal Translation
Eat my son, honey that is good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.

Cross References

Psalm 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Psalm 119:103
How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Proverbs 27:7
The full soul loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Song of Solomon 4:11
Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:1
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

24:1,2 Envy not sinners. And let not a desire ever come into thy mind, Oh that I could shake off restraints! 3-6. Piety and prudence in outward affairs, both go together to complete a wise man. By knowledge the soul is filled with the graces and comforts of the spirit, those precious and pleasant riches. The spirit is strengthened for the spiritual work and the spiritual warfare, by true wisdom. 7-9. A weak man thinks wisdom is too high for him, therefore he will take no pains for it. It is bad to do evil, but worse to devise it. Even the first risings of sin in the heart are sin, and must be repented of. Those that strive to make others hateful, make themselves so. 10. Under troubles we are apt to despair of relief. But be of good courage, and God shall strengthen thy heart. 11,12. If a man know that his neighbour is in danger by any unjust proceeding, he is bound to do all in his power to deliver him. And what is it to suffer immortal souls to perish, when our persuasions and example may be the means of preventing it? 13,14. We are quickened to the study of wisdom by considering both the pleasure and the profit of it. All men relish things that are sweet to the palate; but many have no relish for the things that are sweet to the purified soul, and that make us wise unto salvation. 15,16. The sincere soul falls as a traveller may do, by stumbling at some stone in his path; but gets up, and goes on his way with more care and speed. This is rather to be understood of falls into affliction, than falls into actual sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13, 14. As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.