Proverbs 25:28
Someone without control is as exposed as a town whose walls have been breached.
Free Bible Version
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's not good to eat too much honey, or to want too much praise.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:17You should know what happened and consider what you should do about it. Disaster is about to strike our master and his whole family, but he's so obnoxious no one can talk sense into him!”
Nehemiah 1:3They told me, “The remnant who are left from the exile are there in the province, but they are having a great deal of trouble and feel humiliated. Jerusalem's walls have been knocked over, and its gates burned down.”
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son while there's still hope, but don't kill him.
Proverbs 22:24Don't make friends with someone who gets upset easily; don't associate with angry people,
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 →