Proverbs 25:27

Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.

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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

26The just falling down before the impious is like a fountain stirred up by feet and like a corrupted spring.

28Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:2It is to the glory of God to conceal a word, and it is to the glory of kings to investigate speech.

Proverbs 27:2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth: an outsider, and not your own lips.

2 Corinthians 12:1If it is necessary (though certainly not expedient) to glory, then I will next tell of visions and revelations from the Lord.

Philippians 2:3Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem 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 →

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