Proverbs 25:27
To eat too much honey is not good: so is it honor to set a limit to men's honor.
Leeser Tanakh
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
26Like a turbid spring and a corrupt fountain, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the honor of God to conceal a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy 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 →