Proverbs 25:27
As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.
Bible (Bishops')
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 that can not rule him selfe, is like a citie whiche is broken downe and hath no walles.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to kepe a thing secrete: but the kynges honour is to searche out a thing.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes.
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 →