When you find honey, eat just enough, lest you are stuffed and vomit it.
Proverbs 25:27 - Tree of Life Version It is not good to eat too much honey, or honorable to seek one’s own honor. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
When you find honey, eat just enough, lest you are stuffed and vomit it.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that comes from God alone?
I must go on boasting—though it does no good, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.
Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider others as more important than yourselves,