Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat too much honey, and trying to get people to praise you is also not good.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2We consider God to be great because he ◄acts in mysterious ways/does things that we cannot understand►; we consider kings to be great because they explain things.
Proverbs 27:2Do not praise yourself [MTY, PRS]; allow others to praise you. If someone else praises you, that is okay.
2 Corinthians 12:1It seems that I must go on boasting about myself. Although I do not think that my telling you about this will help you to accept me as Christ’s representative to you, I will say this anyway. I will tell you about visions that the Lord gave a certain man and about things that he supernaturally revealed to that man. I will tell you this because some of the people among you boast that it was in visions that they received the things that they teach.
Philippians 2:3Never try to selfishly make yourselves more important than others nor boast about what you are doing. Instead, be humble, and in particular, honor one another more than you honor 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 →