Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey;nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
New Heart English 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 muddied spring, and a polluted well,so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
28Like a city that is broken down and without wallsis a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing,but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise you,and not your own mouth;a stranger, and not your own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1It is necessary to boast, though it is not profitable. But I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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 →