Proverbs 25:27
To eat much honey is not good; So the search of high things is weariness.
Noyes Bible
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
26As a troubled fountain, and as a corrupted spring, So is a righteous man falling before the wicked.
28As a city broken through and without a wall, So is he that hath no rule over his spirit.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But it is the glory of kings to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1It is indeed not expedient for me to boast; I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3doing nothing in the spirit of faction, or in the spirit of vain-glory, but in humility esteeming others as better 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 →