Proverbs 24:13

13 comede fili mi mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturi tuo

Proverbs 24:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 24:13

My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good
It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said ^F13 to conduce much to prolong life and preserve from diseases; it has been observed that those who have much used it have lived to a great age; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste;
because it is so, as all honey is, and especially that which is immediately squeezed or drops from the honeycomb; this is said not so much on account of honey, and the eating of that, as for what follows concerning the knowledge of wisdom, which is comparable to it for pleasure and profit; see ( Proverbs 16:24 ) ( Psalms 19:11 ) ( 119:103 ) ^F14.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 2. c. 7. p. 46, 47. so Pierius Valerian. apud Steeb. Coelum Sephirot Heb. c. 7. s. 5. p. 132.
F14 Vid. Maimon. Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 30. p. 37.

Proverbs 24:13 In-Context

11 erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem et qui trahuntur ad interitum liberare ne cesses

12 si dixeris vires non suppetunt qui inspector est cordis ipse intellegit et servatorem animae tuae nihil fallit reddetque homini iuxta opera sua

13 comede fili mi mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturi tuo

14 sic et doctrina sapientiae animae tuae quam cum inveneris habebis in novissimis et spes tua non peribit

15 ne insidieris et quaeras impietatem in domo iusti neque vastes requiem eius