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OET-LV Honey you_have_found eat enough_you lest having_too_much_it and_vomit_it.
UHB דְּבַ֣שׁ מָ֭צָאתָ אֱכֹ֣ל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ פֶּן־תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃ ‡
(dəⱱash māʦāʼtā ʼₑkol dayyeⱪā pen-tisbāˊennū vahₐqēʼtō.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT If you find honey, eat enough for you,
⇔ lest you become satiated with it and you vomit it up.
UST If you discover some wild honey, do not eat too much of it.
⇔ If you do, then you will become sick and vomit.
BSB ⇔ If you find honey, eat just what you need,
⇔ lest you have too much and vomit it up.
OEB If you find honey, eat just what you need.
⇔ lest, after a surfeit, you vomit it up.
WEB Have you found honey?
⇔ Eat as much as is sufficient for you,
⇔ lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
WMB (Same as above)
NET When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you,
⇔ lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.
LSV You have found honey—eat your sufficiency,
Lest you are satiated [with] it, and have vomited it.
FBV If you find honey, eat just enough, for if you eat too much, you'll be sick.
T4T ⇔ If you find some honey, do not eat a lot of it,
⇔ because doing that may cause you to vomit.
LEB • If you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.
BBE If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
MOF No MOF PRO book available
JPS Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
ASV Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
⇔ Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
DRA Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.
YLT Honey thou hast found — eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated [with] it, and hast vomited it.
DBY Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.
RV Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
WBS Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.
KJB-1769 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
(Hast thou/you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou/you be filled therewith, and vomit it. )
KJB-1611 No KJB-1611 PRO book available
BB If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.
(If thou/you findest honie, eat so much as is sufficient for thee: lest thou/you be over full, and parbreake it out again.)
GNV If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, and vomit it.
(If thou/you have found honey, eat that is sufficient for thee, least thou/you be ouerfull, and vomit it. )
CB Yf thou findest hony, eate so moch as is sufficiet for ye: lest thou be ouer full, & perbreake it out againe.
(If thou/you findest honey, eat so much as is sufficiet for ye: lest thou/you be over full, and perbreake it out again.)
WYC Thou hast founde hony, ete thou that that suffisith to thee; lest perauenture thou be fillid, and brake it out.
(Thou hast found honey, eat thou/you that that suffisith to thee; lest perauenture thou/you be fillid, and brake it out.)
LUT Findest du Honig, so iß sein genug, daß du nicht zu satt werdest und speiest ihn aus.
(Findest you Honig, so iß his enough, that you not to satt becomest and speiest him/it aus.)
CLV [Mel invenisti: comede quod sufficit tibi, ne forte satiatus evomas illud.[fn]
([Mel invenisti: comede that sufficit tibi, ne forte satiatus evomas illud. )
25.16 Mel invenisti, comede quod sufficit tibi. Potest et sic intelligi, etc., usque ad vel toties ad illum venias ut fastidiat.
25.16 Mel invenisti, comede that sufficit tibi. Potest and so intelligi, etc., usque to or toties to him venias as fastidiat.
BRN Having found honey, eat only what is enough, lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up.
BrLXX Μέλι εὑρὼν φάγε τὸ ἱκανὸν, μή ποτε πλησθεὶς ἐξεμέσῃς.
(Meli heurōn fage to hikanon, maʸ pote plaʸstheis exemesaʸs. )
25:16-17 Honey in moderation is tasty and healthy (24:13-14); too much will cause vomiting. This principle can be applied to other areas of life; for example, it is good to visit your neighbors, but not too often.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
דְּבַ֣שׁ מָ֭צָאתָ
honey find
Here Solomon refers to someone unexpectedly discovering wild honey. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “If you happen to come across honey”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
אֱכֹ֣ל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ
eat enough,you
Here Solomon implies that someone should only eat enough honey and not more than that. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “only eat enough for you”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ
having_too_much,it
Here, the word translated as satiated refers to someone overeating to the degree that he becomes sick. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “you eat yourself sick with it”