Proverbs 25:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
If you find honey, eat just enough-- too much of it, and you will vomit.

New Living Translation
Do you like honey? Don’t eat too much, or it will make you sick!

English Standard Version
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Berean Study Bible
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

New American Standard Bible
Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, So that you do not have it in excess and vomit it.

NASB 1995
Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, That you not have it in excess and vomit it.

NASB 1977
Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, Lest you have it in excess and vomit it.

Amplified Bible
Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need, Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.

Christian Standard Bible
If you find honey, eat only what you need; otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you find honey, eat only what you need; otherwise, you'll get sick from it and vomit.

Contemporary English Version
Eating too much honey can make you sick.

Good News Translation
Never eat more honey than you need; too much may make you vomit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When you find honey, eat only as much as you need. Otherwise, you will have too much and vomit.

International Standard Version
If you find some honey, eat only what you need. Take too much, and you'll vomit.

NET Bible
When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

New King James Version
Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be filled with it and vomit.

King James 2000 Bible
Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

New Heart English Bible
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, 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.

American King James Version
Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, 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.

A Faithful Version
Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it up.

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(25:15) If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yf thou findest hony, eate so moch as is sufficiet for ye: lest thou be ouer full, & perbreake it out againe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You have found honey—eat your sufficiency, "" Lest you are satiated [with] it, and have vomited it.

Young's Literal Translation
Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You have discovered honey; eat what is sufficient for you, lest perhaps, being filled up, you may vomit it.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Whenever you have found honey, eat enough for you, lest when you are full, you vomit it.

Lamsa Bible
When you find honey, eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

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
















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