Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs 25:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search out their own glory is not glory. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search their own glory is not glory. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) It is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous. Common English Bible Eating too much honey isn’t good, nor is it appropriate to seek honor. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 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. |
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
How can ye believe, which receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?
I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;