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16 Have you (A)found honey? Eat only enough for you,
Lest you have more than your fill and vomit it.
17 Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Lest he have more than his fill of you and hate you.
18 Like a club and a (B)sword and a sharp (C)arrow
Is a man who bears [a](D)false witness against his neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:18 Or lying witness, cf. Ex 20:16

16 If you find honey, eat just enough—
    too much of it, and you will vomit.(A)
17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house—
    too much of you, and they will hate you.

18 Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow
    is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.(B)

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