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Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
Proverbs 25:27 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 25:27 in other translations
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
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In context
24 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
25 As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.
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.
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