Proverbs 27:2 (BSB)

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:2: Note, 1. We must do that which is commendable, for which even strangers may praise us. Our light must shine before men, and we must do good works that may be seen, though we must not do them on purpose that they may be seen. Let our own works be such as will praise us, even in the gates, Phi 4:8. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:2: Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth,.... Men should do those things which are praiseworthy; and should do them openly, that they may be seen and praised for them: for it is honourable to have such a character as Demetrius had, who had a good report of all men; and as the brother had, whose praise in the Gospel was in all the churches.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:2: Pro 27:2 2 Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips. The negative לא is with פיך, as in (Arab.) ghyra fyk, bound into one compact idea: that which is not thine own mouth (Fleischer), “not thine own lips,” on the other hand, is not to be interpreted as corresponding to it, like אל־מות, Pro 12:28; since...