Proverbs 25:27
To eat honey in abundance, is not good, nor is, searching out their own honour, an honourable thing.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 fountain fouled, a spring spoiled, is a righteous man tottering before one who is lawless.
28A city broken down without a wall, is a man who hath no control over his own spirit.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2The glory of God, is to conceal a thing, but, the glory of kings, is to search out a thing.
Proverbs 27:2Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1To be boasting, is needful,—it is not, indeed, profitable, yet will I come to visions and revelations of [the] Lord:—
Philippians 2:3Nothing by way of faction, nothing by way of vain-glory,—but, in lowliness of mind, accounting, one another, superior to 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 →