PRO 25:27 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Ἐσθίειν μέλι πολὺ οὐ καλὸν, τιμᾷν δὲ χρὴ λόγους ἐνδόξους.
(Esthiein meli polu ou kalon, timan de ⱪraʸ logous endoxous. )

BrTr It is not good to eat much honey; but it is right to honour venerable sayings.

ULT To eat much honey is not good,
⇔ and the searching out of their honor, honor.

UST As it is very bad to eat too much honey;
⇔ so is it dishonorable to try to make people honor you.

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

OEB It is not good to eat much honey;
⇔ be sparing then of your compliments.

WEBBE It is not good to eat much honey,
⇔ nor is it honourable to seek one’s own honour.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET It is not good to eat too much honey,
⇔ nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.

LSV The eating of much honey is not good,
Nor a searching out of one’s own honor—honor.

FBV It's not good to eat too much honey, or to want too much praise.[fn]

25:27 The second part of this verse is uncertain.

T4T ⇔ It is not good to eat too much honey,
⇔ and trying to get people to praise you is also not good.

LEB • nor is seeking one’s honor[fn] honorable.

25:? Hebrew “their honor”

BBE It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

ASV It is not good to eat much honey;
⇔ So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

DRA As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be overwhelmed by glory.

YLT The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour — honour.

Drby It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.

RV It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

Wbstr It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

KJB-1769 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

KJB-1611 It is not good to eat much hony: so for men to search their owne glory, is not glory.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.
(As it is not good to eat to much honeye, so curiously to searche the glory of heavenly things, is not commendable.)

Gnva It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.
(It is not good to eat much honey: so to search their own glory is not glory. )

Cvdl Like as it is not good to eate to moch hony, euen so he that wyll search out hye thynges, it shal be to heuy for him.
(Like as it is not good to eat to much honey, even so he that will search out high things, it shall be to heuy for him.)

Wycl As it is not good to hym that etith myche hony; so he that is a serchere of maieste, schal be put doun fro glorie.
(As it is not good to him that etith much honey; so he that is a serchere of mayest/maye, shall be put down from glory.)

Luth Wer zu viel Honig isset, das ist nicht gut; und wer schwere Dinge forschet, dem wird‘s zu schwer.
(Who to many Honig isset, the is not gut; and who schwere things forschet, to_him wird‘s to schwer.)

ClVg Sicut qui mel multum comedit non est ei bonum, sic qui scrutator est majestatis opprimetur a gloria.[fn]
(Sicut who mel multum comedit not/no it_is to_him bonum, so who scrutator it_is mayestatis opprimetur from gloria. )

25.27 Sicut qui mel. Dulcedo enim mellis, etc., usque ad unde sequitur:

25.27 Sicut who mel. Dulcedo because mellis, etc., until to whence follows:

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes

לֹא־ט֑וֹב

not good

See how you translated the same use of not good in 16:29.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וְ⁠חֵ֖קֶר כְּבֹדָ֣⁠ם כָּבֽוֹד

and,seek glory,one's_own glory

Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a clause would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the previous clause if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “and the searching out of their honor is not honor”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

וְ⁠חֵ֖קֶר

and,seek

In this verse, Solomon compares eating much honey tosearching out one’s own honor. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly: Alternate translation: “and similarly, the searching out of”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠חֵ֖קֶר כְּבֹדָ֣⁠ם

and,seek glory,one's_own

Here Solomon speaks of someone trying to get other people to honor him as if honor were an object that a person could search for. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and trying to make other people honor you”

Parallel PRO 25:27