Proverbs 25:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

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

King James Bible
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Hebrew
If you find
מָ֭צָאתָ (mā·ṣā·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

honey,
דְּבַ֣שׁ (də·ḇaš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1706: Honey, syrup

eat
אֱכֹ֣ל (’ĕ·ḵōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

just what you need,
דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ (day·ye·kā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1767: Sufficiency, enough

lest
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

you have too much
תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ (tiś·bā·‘en·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

and vomit it up.
וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃ (wa·hă·qê·ṯōw)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6958: Spue out, vomit out, up, up again

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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