Proverbs 24:13
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
In context
10 If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength! 11 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. 12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste. 14 Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. 15 Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous, do not plunder their dwelling place; 16 for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
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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:
- ESV English Standard Version
— Proverbs 24:13 in the ESV
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.