Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
In Context
26A troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [is] a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
28He whose spirit is without restraint is a city that is broken down and without walls.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1(Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of Lord.
Philippians 2:3in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:27
26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. It is here represented as a very lamentable thing, and a public grievance, and of ill consequence to many, like the troubling of a fountain and the corrupting of a spring, for the righteous to fall down before the wicked, that is, 1. For the righteous to fall into sin in the sight of the wicked—for them to do any thing unbecoming their profession, which is told in Gath, and published in the streets of Ashkelon, and… Read the whole commentary →