Proverbs 24:13
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
In context
10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. 11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. 12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. 14 Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off. 15 Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home; 16 for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 24:13 in the KJV
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; And the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 24:13 in the NIV
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.