Proverbs 25 · Verse 27

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs 25:27, King James Version

Proverbs 25:27 in other translations

BSBIt is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
WEBIt is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
ASVIt is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.
YLTThe eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.
DARBYIt is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.
BBEIt is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
WebsterIt is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

What does Proverbs 25:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. Satiety surfeits (Pr 25:16); so men who are self-glorious find shame. is not glory--"not" is supplied from the first clause, or "is grievous," in which sense a similar word is used (Pr 27:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 It is not good to eat much honey - Coverdale translates the whole passage thus: "Like as it is not good to eat to muche hony; even so, he that wyll search out hye thinges, it shal be to hevy for him." As he that etith myche honye, and it is not to him goode; so, that is a sercher of mageste, schal ben oppressid of glorie - Old MS. Bible. He that searches too much into mysteries, is likely to be confounded by them. I really think this is the meaning of the place; and shall not puzzle either myself or my reader with the discordant explanations which have been brought forward with the hope of illustrating this passage.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of men.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 25:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אָ֘כֹ֤ל'a.Kholto eatH398
דְּבַ֣שׁde.VashhoneyH1706
הַרְבּ֣וֹתhar.BotmuchH7235
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
ט֑וֹבTov[is] goodH2896
וְחֵ֖קֶרve.Che.kerand [the] search ofH2714
כְּבֹדָ֣םke.vo.Damown honor theirH3519
כָּבֽוֹד\׃ka.Vod[is] an honorH3519

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 25:27

  • Proverbs 27:2

    Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

  • John 5:44

    How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

  • Philippians 2:3

    Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

  • Proverbs 25:16

    Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:1

    It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:11

    I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
not good.
16
so.
27:2; Joh 5:44; 2Co 12:1,11; Php 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 25:26

    A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

  • Proverbs 25:27

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

  • Proverbs 25:28

    He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Read all of Proverbs 25

Proverbs 25:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Comer mucha miel no es bueno: ni el buscar la propia gloria es gloria.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Manger beaucoup de miel n’est pas bon, et s’occuper de sa propre gloire n’est pas la gloire.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Viel Honig essen ist nicht gut, aber schwere Dinge erforschen ist Ehre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sicut qui mel multum comedit non est ei bonum, sic qui scrutator est majestatis opprimetur a gloria.