Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey; 2 nor is it kavod ·weighty glory· to seek one’s own kavod ·weighty glory·. 1
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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 muddied spring, and a polluted well, 2 so is a upright man who gives way before the wicked. 1
28Like a city that is broken down and without walls 2 is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the kavod ·weighty glory· of God to conceal a thing, 2 but the kavod ·weighty glory· of kings is to search out a matter. 1
Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise you, 2 and not your own mouth; 2 a stranger, and not your own lips. 1
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 →