It is not good to eat much honey. Is it esteem to seek one’s own esteem?
Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be satisfied with it and vomit.
It is the esteem of Elohim to hide a matter, And the esteem of sovereigns to search out a matter.
Let another man praise you, And not your own mouth – A stranger, and not your own lips.
For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.
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?”
To boast, indeed, is useless for me, for I shall go on to visions and revelations of יהוה.
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.
doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.