15 Through [a](A)patience a ruler may be persuaded,
And a gentle tongue breaks bone.
16 Have you (B)found honey? Eat only [b]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 [c]weary of you and hate you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:15 Lit length of anger
  2. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency
  3. Proverbs 25:17 Lit surfeited with

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