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Proverbs 25:27
The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.
Proverbs 25:27 · Young's Literal Translation
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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 Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
25 As cold waters for a weary soul, So is a good report from a far country.
26 A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, Is the righteous falling before the wicked.
27 The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.
28 A city broken down without walls, Is a man without restraint over his spirit!
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