Proverbs 25:27
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New International Version (©1984)
It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

New Living Translation (©2007)
It's not good to eat too much honey, and it's not good to seek honors for yourself.

English Standard Version (©2001)
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It is not good to eat much honey, Nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Eating too much honey is not good, and searching for honor is not honorable.

King James Bible
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

American King James Version
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

American Standard Version
It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

Bible in Basic English
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be overwhelmed by glory.

Darby Bible Translation
It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.

English Revised Version
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

World English Bible
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

Young's Literal Translation
The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

25:27 Not good - For health. To search - Industriously to seek for applause. Is not - Is not only sinful, but shameful also.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27. Satiety surfeits (Pr 25:16); so men who are self-glorious find shame.

is not glory-"not" is supplied from the first clause, or "is grievous," in which sense a similar word is used (Pr 27:2).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:19. Confidence in an unfaithful man is painful and vexatious; when we put any stress on him, he not only fails, but makes us feel for it. 20. We take a wrong course if we think to relieve those in sorrow by endeavouring to make them merry. 21,22. The precept to love even our enemies is an Old Testament commandment. Our Saviour has shown his own great example in loving us when we were enemies. 23. Slanders would not be so readily spoken, if they were not readily heard. Sin, if it receives any check, becomes cowardly. 24. It is better to be alone, than to be joined to one who is a hinderance to the comfort of life. 25. Heaven is a country afar off; how refreshing is good news from thence, in the everlasting gospel, which signifies glad tidings, and in the witness of the Spirit with our spirits that we are God's children! 26. When the righteous are led into sin, it is as hurtful as if the public fountains were poisoned. 27. We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of men. 28. The man who has no command over his anger, is easily robbed of peace. Let us give up ourselves to the Lord, and pray him to put his Spirit within us, and cause us to walk in his statutes.


Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.
Luke 14:11 "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." (NASB ©1995)

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

not good 26:16

so 27:2 Joh 5:44 2Co 12:1,11 Php 2:3

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