| Proverbs 25:27 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | It is not good to eat much honey, Nor is it glory to search out one's own glory. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Eating too much honey is not good, and searching for honor is not honorable. (GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. |
| ASV: | It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search out their own glory is grievous. |
| BBE: | It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured. |
| DBY: | It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight. |
| ERV: | It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory. |
| JPS: | It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search out their own glory is not glory. |
| WBS: | It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. |
| WEB: | It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor. |
| YLT: | The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour. |
| Proverbs 25:27 Cross References |
| XREF: | Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.
Luke 14:11 "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 25:27 Not good - For health. To search - Industriously to seek for applause. Is not - Is not only sinful, but shameful also. |
| MHC: | 25:19. Confidence in an unfaithful man is painful and vexatious; when we put any stress on him, he not only fails, but makes us feel for it. 20. We take a wrong course if we think to relieve those in sorrow by endeavouring to make them merry. 21,22. The precept to love even our enemies is an Old Testament commandment. Our Saviour has shown his own great example in loving us when we were enemies. 23. Slanders would not be so readily spoken, if they were not readily heard. Sin, if it receives any check, becomes cowardly. 24. It is better to be alone, than to be joined to one who is a hinderance to the comfort of life. 25. Heaven is a country afar off; how refreshing is good news from thence, in the everlasting gospel, which signifies glad tidings, and in the witness of the Spirit with our spirits that we are God's children! 26. When the righteous are led into sin, it is as hurtful as if the public fountains were poisoned. 27. We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of men. 28. The man who has no command over his anger, is easily robbed of peace. Let us give up ourselves to the Lord, and pray him to put his Spirit within us, and cause us to walk in his statutes. |
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