Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

To eat much honey is not good, nor [is] seeking one's honor honorable.

New American Standard Bible

It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glory to search out one’s own glory.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

It is not good to eat too much honey
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.

Bible in Basic English

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
It is not good
טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 553

to eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

דּבשׁ 
D@bash 
Usage: 54

so for men to search
חקר 
Cheqer 
Usage: 12

כּבד כּבוד 
Kabowd 
Usage: 200

References

Morish

Prayers for Proverbs 25:27

Context Readings

More Proverbs Of Solomon

26 [Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked. 27 To eat much honey is not good, nor [is] seeking one's honor honorable. 28 A breached city [where] there is no wall [is like] a man who {has no} self-control for his spirit.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:2

May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Proverbs 25:16

[If] you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.

John 5:44

How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is necessary to boast; [it is] not profitable, but I will proceed to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for [I am] in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

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