Proverbs 25:27
It is not tov to eat much devash; 1 so for men to seek their own kavod is not glory. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
26A tzaddik who falters before the rasha is like a muddy spring, 1 and a polluted makor (fountain). 1
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the Kavod Elohim to conceal a thing, 1 but the kavod melachim is to search out a matter. 1
Proverbs 27:2Let another praise thee, and not thine own peh (mouth); 1 a nokhri (stranger), and not thine own sfatayim (lips). 1
2 Corinthians 12:1It is necessary for me to boast, nothing gained by it, yet I now come to marot (visions) and chazonot (revelations) of Adoneinu.
Philippians 2:3Doing nothing according to anochiyut + 2:3 Pp 1:17 (selfishness) nor according to empty ga'avah (conceit, haughtiness, arrogance), but in anavah (humility), fergin (graciously grant) each other esteem above yourselves. + 2:3 Ro 12:10
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 →