Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat too much honey; 1 that is like searching for honor after honor. + 25:27 Modern versions have different interpretations of this difficult verse. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
26Like a fouled spring or a ruined fountain 1 is a righteous person tottering before wicked people. 1
28A person without self-control 1 is like a city breached and without walls.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, 1 but the glory of kings to search it out. 1
Proverbs 27:2Let someone else praise you and not your own mouth; 1 a stranger and not your own lips. 1
2 Corinthians 12:1I must boast, but nothing is gained by it. But I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
Philippians 2:3Do nothing out of selfishness or empty conceit. Instead with humility consider others 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 →