Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is like a troubled well, and a corrupt spring.
28A man that refraineth not his appetite, is like a citie which is broken downe and without walles.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2The glorie of God is to conceale a thing secret: but the Kings honour is to search out a thing.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man prayse thee, and not thine owne mouth: a stranger, and not thine owne lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1It is not expedient for me no doubt to reioyce: for I will come to visions and reuelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3That nothing be done through contention or vaine glory, but that in meekenesse of minde euery man esteeme other better then himselfe.
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 →