Proverbs 25:27
The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour — honour.
Young's Literal Translation
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 spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, [Is] the righteous falling before the wicked.
28A city broken down without walls, [Is] a man without restraint over his spirit!
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2The honour of God [is] to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than 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 →