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16 If you find honey, ·don’t eat too much [eat the right amount],
    or it will make you full and you will throw up.
17 ·Don’t go to your neighbor’s house too often [L Rarely let your feet step into your neighbor’s house];
    ·too much of you will make him [L they will have their fill of you and] hate you.

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16 Have you (A)found honey? Eat only [a]what you need,
So that you do not have it in excess and vomit it.
17 Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become [b]weary of you and hate you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency
  2. Proverbs 25:17 Lit surfeited with