Proverbs 25:27
It's not good to eat too much honey, or to want too much praise.
Free Bible Version
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
26Good people who give in to the wicked are like a muddied spring or a polluted well.
28Someone without control is as exposed as a town whose walls have been breached.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2God's greatness is in doing things that can't be known, while the greatness of kings is in revealing things.
Proverbs 27:2Let others praise you, not you yourself; someone else, not you personally.
2 Corinthians 12:1I suppose I have to boast, even though it doesn't really help. Let me go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
Philippians 2:3Don't do anything from a spirit of selfishness or pride, but humbly think of others better than you do of yourself.
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 →