Proverbs 25:27

¶ [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.

It is not good {H2896} to eat {H398} much {H7235} honey {H1706}: so for men to search {H2714} their own glory {H3519} is not glory {H3519}.

It isn't good to eat too much honey or to seek honor after honor.

It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.

It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • John 5:44 (6 votes)

    How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that [cometh] from God only?

  • Proverbs 27:2 (6 votes)

    ¶ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

  • Philippians 2:3 (3 votes)

    [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • Proverbs 25:16 (2 votes)

    ¶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:11 (2 votes)

    ¶ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.