Proverbs 25:28
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
In Context
27It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:17Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
Nehemiah 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
Proverbs 22:24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:28
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. I. Two things we must be graciously dead to:—1. To the pleasures of sense, for it is not good to eat much honey; though it pleases the taste, and, if eaten with moderation, is very wholesome, yet, if eaten to excess, it becomes nauseous, creates bile, and is the occasion of many diseases. It is true of all the delights of the children of men that they will surfeit, but never satisfy, and they are dangerous to those that allow… Read the whole commentary →