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Proverbs 24:13

Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat:

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Comede, fili mi, mel, quia bonum est, et favum dulcissimum gutturi tuo.
Septuagint (Swete)
φάγε μέλι, υἱέ, ἀγαθὸν γὰρ κηρίον, ἵνα γλυκανθῇ σου ὁ φάρυγξ.
Hebrew (WLC)
אֱכָל בְּנִ֣י דְבַ֣שׁ כִּי ט֑וֹב וְנֹ֥פֶת מָ֝ת֗וֹק עַל חִכֶּֽךָ

Haydock's commentary

Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. (Menochius)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.