Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 25:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
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Quick Meaning
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 25:15–20
Read Proverbs 25:16 inside Proverbs 25:15–20: it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it”. The unit then locates that line within friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, kingship, public authority, and accountable rule rather than treating it as a free-standing formula.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit needs this line's exact work: it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it”. That placement develops friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, kingship, public authority, and accountable rule while leaving exceptional cases visible.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,...”
In plain language: appetite, intoxication, desire, and self-government
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it”.
Why it matters: This wording gives the verse its distinct role inside the cluster.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Unexamined appetite can narrow judgment and make people, resources, and responsibilities easier to neglect. In Proverbs 25:16, that bounded truth is expressed through “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,...,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Set realistic limits, reduce access to known hazards, seek support early, and respond to compulsive use without stigma. For Proverbs 25:16, preserve the sequence: verse role (contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it”) -> contextual meaning in Proverbs 25:15–20 -> proportionate truth -> this accountable response.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 25:15–20 — Friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries — By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft...Sources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
This sentence saying states a context-shaped moral pattern. Its small-cluster boundary and degree of generality remain reviewable; exceptional outcomes do not make the observation meaningless or turn it into a guarantee.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 25:15–20, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 25:15-25:20
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1161-1164, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 25:15–20
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