Proverbs 25:27
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25:27It is not good58 to eat too much honey,
nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.59
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- 58 This is a figure of speech known as tapeinosis—a deliberate understatement to emphasize a worst-case scenario: “it is bad!”
- 59 Heb “and the investigation of their glory is not glory.” This line is difficult to understand but it forms an analogy to honey—glory, like honey, is good, but not to excess. The rendered this, “it is proper to honor notable sayings.” A. A. MacIntosh suggests, “He who searches for glory will be distressed” (“A Note on Prov 25:27,” 20 [1970]: 112–14). G. E. Bryce has “to search out difficult things is glorious” (“Another Wisdom ‘Book’ in Proverbs,” 91 (1972): 145–47). R. C. Van Leeuwen suggests, “to seek difficult things is as glory” (“Proverbs 25:27 Once Again,” 36 [1986]: 105–14). The Hebrew is cryptic, but not unintelligible: “seeking their glory [is not] glory.” It is saying that seeking one’s own glory is dishonorable.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
It is not good to eat much honey,
nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
It is not good to eat too much honey,
nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
It is not good to eat too much honey
or to seek glory after glory.
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NLTNew Living Translation
It’s not good to eat too much honey,
and it’s not good to seek honors for yourself.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
To eat much honey is not good,
nor is seeking one’s honor honorable.
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KJV 1900King James Version
It is not good to eat much honey:
So for men to search their own glory is not glory.
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