Proverbs 25:27
The eating of much honey is not good, || Nor a searching out of one’s own honor—honor.
Literal Standard 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
26A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, || [Is] the righteous falling before the wicked.
28A city broken down without walls, || [Is] a man without restraint over his spirit!
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2The glory of God [is] to hide a thing, || And the glory of kings [is] to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth, || A stranger, and not your own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the LORD.
Philippians 2:3nothing in rivalry or vainglory, but in humility of mind counting one another more excellent than yourselves—
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 →