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

New Living Translation
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.

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

Berean Study Bible
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is 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;

NASB 1995
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;

NASB 1977
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;

Amplified Bible
My son, eat honey, because it is good, And the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

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

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Eat honey, my son, because it is good. Honey that flows from the honeycomb tastes sweet.

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

NET Bible
Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

New King James Version
My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;

King James 2000 Bible
My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:

New Heart English Bible
My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste.

World English Bible
My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

American King James Version
My son, eat you honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is 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:

A Faithful Version
My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

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

English Revised Version
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honey-comb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My sonne, thou eatest hony & ye swete hony cobe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
My son, eat honey that [is] good, "" And the honeycomb [is] sweet to your palate.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
My son, eat honey, for it is good; and the dropping of honey being sweet to thy palate.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
My son, eat honey, because it is good, and the honeycomb, because it is so sweet to your throat.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and honeycomb is sweet to your palate.

Lamsa Bible
My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, And the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that thy throat may be sweetened.
















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