Proverbs 24:13 (BSB)

Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:13-14: We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste, and upon that account we call it good, especially that which runs first from the honey-comb.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:13: So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul,.... Or let it be taken in as greedily and with as good an appetite; as pleasant, useful, delightful, and profitable; even the knowledge of Christ, the Wisdom of God, which is preferable to all things else, and more desirable than the most pleasant and profitable things in the world; and of the Gospel of Christ...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:13: As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 24:13: My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste: (d) As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul.