Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
Bible in Basic English
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
28He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
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 →