Proverbs 25:27 (BSB)

It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.

From Proverbs 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 25:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 25:27: I. Two things we must be graciously dead to: - 1. To the pleasures of sense, for it is not good to eat much honey; though it pleases the taste, and, if eaten with moderation, is very wholesome, yet, if eaten to excess, it becomes nauseous, creates bile, and is the occasion of many diseases.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 25:27: He that hath no rule over his own spirit,.... His affections and passions, puts no restraint, unto them, as the word signifies; no guard against them, no fence about them, to curb his curiosity, to check his pride and vanity, to restrain his wrath and anger and revenge, and keep within due bounds his ambition and itch of vainglory; is like a city that broken...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 25:27: Satiety surfeits (Pro 25:16); so men who are self-glorious find shame. is not glory--"not" is supplied from the first clause, or "is grievous," in which sense a similar word is used (Pro 27:2).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 25:27: Pro 25:27 This verse, as it stands, is scarcely to be understood. The Venet. translates 27b literally: ἔρευνά τε δόξας αὐτῶν δόξα; but what is the reference of this כּבדם? Euchel and others refer it to men, for they translate: “to set a limit to the glory of man is true glory;” but the “glory of man” is denoted by the phrase כּבד אדם, not...