Parallel Verses
World English Bible
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
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.
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.
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.
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 muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. 27 It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor. 28 Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Cross References
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
2 Corinthians 12:1
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;