Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.
Revised Version 1895
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
28He whose spirit is without restraint is like a city that is broken down and hath no wall.
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 thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other 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 →