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

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New International Version (©1984)
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

New Living Translation (©2007)
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.

English Standard Version (©2001)
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Eat honey, my son, because it is good. Honey that flows from the honeycomb tastes sweet.

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

Bible in Basic English
My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your 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:

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:

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

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

Geneva Study Bible

My son, eat thou {d} honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

(d) As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul.

Wesley's Notes

24:13 Eat - This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse . Honey in those parts was an usual food.

King James Translators' Notes

to...: Heb. upon thy palate

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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

Matthew Henry's Concise 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.

Psalm 19:10 They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of 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 a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Proverbs 25:16 Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, That you not have it in excess and vomit it.

Proverbs 27:7 A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.

Song of Songs 4:11 "Your lips, my bride, drip honey; Honey and milk are under your tongue, And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 5:1 "I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends; Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers." (NASB ©1995)

Comb Drippings Droppings Eat Flowing Honey Honeycomb Honey-comb Palate Sweet Taste Yes

Comb Drippings Droppings Eat Flowing Good Honey Honeycomb Honey-Comb Palate Sweet Taste

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

eat 25:16,27 So 5:1 Isa 7:15 Mt 3:4

to the taste or upon thy palate

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