Proverbs 25:27 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey. Is it esteem to seek one’s own esteem?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to seek glory, their own glory, causes suffering and is not glory.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Eating too much honey isn’t good, nor is it appropriate to seek honor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ 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.

Proverbs 25:27 Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be satisfied with it and vomit.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the esteem of Elohim to hide a matter, And the esteem of sovereigns to search out a matter.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise you, And not your own mouth – A stranger, and not your own lips.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.

John 5:44

How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you do not seek?”

2 Corinthians 12:1

To boast, indeed, is useless for me, for I shall go on to visions and revelations of יהוה.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool – you have compelled me. For I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I behind the most eminent emissaries, though I am a nobody.

Philippians 2:3

doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.