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Proverbios 25:27
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No es bueno comer mucha miel, ni el buscar la propia gloria es gloria.
Comer mucha miel no es bueno: Ni el buscar la propia gloria es gloria.
Comer mucha miel no es bueno; ni inquirir de su propia gloria es gloria.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not good: Proverbs 25:16
so: Proverbs 27:2, John 5:44, 2 Corinthians 12:1, 2 Corinthians 12:11, Philippians 2:3
Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:11 - honey Proverbs 24:13 - eat Proverbs 25:6 - Put not forth thyself John 7:18 - seeketh his glory John 8:54 - If Romans 12:3 - not to 2 Corinthians 10:12 - we dare not 2 Corinthians 11:30 - must 1 Thessalonians 2:6 - of men
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[It is] not good to eat much honey,.... That is too much otherwise it is good to eat, Proverbs 24:13; but too much is hurtful, it surfeits the stomach increases choler e and creates loathing; and indeed, too much of anything is bad f;
so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory: to set forth their own excellencies, to sound forth their own praises to seek honour of men, to use all methods to gain popular applause; this is not glorious and praiseworthy, but dishonourable; or it may be rendered as it literally lies in the original, "but to search out", or "the searching out of their glory [is] glory" g; either the glory of righteous men, as Aben Ezra interprets it, such as stand and do not fall before the wicked; to search out their excellencies and virtues, and follow their example, is glorious and honourable: or to search the glory of the knowledge of divine things, comparable to honey, is commendable and glorious; for though a man may eat too much honey, yet he cannot have too much knowledge of divine and spiritual things, or be satiated and overfilled with them; to which the Septuagint version agrees, "but we ought to honour glorious words": the glorious truths of the word of God ought to be had in great esteem, and to search out the glory of them is honourable; our Lord directs to a search of the Scriptures, because they testify of him, John 5:39; and we can never know too much of him, or of the precious doctrines of the Gospel; unless this is to be understood of such things as should not be curiously inquired into; men should not be wise above what is written nor search into those things which God has concealed; as his own nature and perfections, the mode of subsisting of the three Persons in the Godhead, his secret purposes and decrees, and unsearchable judgments. To which sense agrees the Vulgate Latin version,
"so he who is the searcher of majesty shall be oppressed by glory;''
he shall be bore down by it, and not able to bear the glory of it: and the Targum is,
"to eat much honey is not good, nor to search glorious words.''
Jarchi takes the words in this sense; and illustrates them by the work of creation, Ezekiel's vision of the wheels, the decrees of God, and the reasons of them.
e Suidas in voce μουλι. f "Vitiosum est ubique quod nimium est", Seneca de Tranquilitate, c. 9. g חקר כבדם כבוד "investigatio gloriae illorum (est) gloria", Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis; "scrutatio gloriae ipsorum est gloria", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
So for men ... - A difficult sentence, the text of which is probably defective. The words are not in the original. Many commentators render: so to search into weighty matters is itself a weight, i. e., people soon become satiated with it as with honey. Possibly a warning against an over-curious searching into the mysteries of God’s word or works.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 25:27. It is not good to eat much honey — Coverdale translates the whole passage thus: "Like as it is not good to eat to muche hony; even so, he that wyll search out hye thinges, it shal be to hevy for him." As he that etith myche honye, and it is not to him goode; so, that is a sercher of mageste, schal ben oppressid of glorie - Old MS. Bible. He that searches too much into mysteries, is likely to be confounded by them. I really think this is the meaning of the place; and shall not puzzle either myself or my reader with the discordant explanations which have been brought forward with the hope of illustrating this passage.
