Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
King James Version
In Context
26A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
28He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:27
26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. It is here represented as a very lamentable thing, and a public grievance, and of ill consequence to many, like the troubling of a fountain and the corrupting of a spring, for the righteous to fall down before the wicked, that is, 1. For the righteous to fall into sin in the sight of the wicked—for them to do any thing unbecoming their profession, which is told in Gath, and published in the streets of Ashkelon, and… Read the whole commentary →