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Bible in Basic English
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
New American Standard Bible
Nor is it glory to
King James Version
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Holman Bible
or to seek glory after glory.
International Standard Version
To eat too much honey isn't good; and neither is it honorable to seek one's own glory.
A Conservative Version
It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.
American Standard Version
It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.
Amplified
It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.
Darby Translation
It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.
Julia Smith Translation
To eat much honey is not good: and to seek out their honor, not honor.
King James 2000
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.
Lexham Expanded Bible
To eat much honey is not good, nor [is] seeking one's honor honorable.
Modern King James verseion
It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as it is not good to eat too much honey; even so, he that will search out high things, it shall be too heavy for him.
NET Bible
It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.
New Heart English Bible
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
The Emphasized Bible
To eat honey in abundance, is not good, nor is, searching out their own honour, an honourable thing.
Webster
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
World English Bible
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
Youngs Literal Translation
The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.
Themes
Eating » Admonitions concerning eating
Exaltation » Of self » Self-exaltation, the folly of
Food » Grace before » Admonitions concerning eating
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:27
Prayers for Proverbs 25:27
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More Proverbs Of Solomon
26 Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers. 27 It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured. 28 He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
Cross References
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Proverbs 25:16
If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
2 Corinthians 12:1
As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
Philippians 2:3
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;