Proverbs 25:27
As it is not good to him that eateth much honey; so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be put down from glory. (Like it is not good for him who eateth too much honey; so he who seeketh his own glory, shall be brought down from his place of honour.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2The glory of God is to cover a word; and the glory of kings is to seek out a word. (The glory of God be those things which he hath hidden; and the glory of kings is to search them out.)
Proverbs 27:2Another man (or Let another person), and not thy (own) mouth praise thee; a stranger, and not thy lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1If it behooveth to have glory, it speedeth not (or It is not expedient to boast); but I shall come to the visions and the revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3nothing [doing] by strife, neither by vain glory, but in meekness, deeming each other to be higher [in virtue] than himself; (doing nothing by contention, nor by conceit, but in humility, judging others to be of greater virtue than thyself;)
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 →