Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey; but it is right to honour venerable sayings.

Brenton Septuagint

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

26As if one should stop a well, and corrupt a spring of water, so is it unseemly for a righteous man to fall before an ungodly man.

28As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:2The glory of God conceals a matter: but the glory of a king honours business.

Proverbs 27:2Let thy neighbour, and not thine own mouth, praise thee; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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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