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It is not good to eat much honey; Nor is it honorable to seek ones own honor.
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A Famously Difficult Verse
Scholars across the board, including Albert Barnes and John Gill, point out that the original Hebrew of this verse is very difficult to translate. This ambiguity has led to several distinct interpretations, all centered on the analogy of 'too much honey' being a bad thing.
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18th Century
Theologian
So for men ... - This is a difficult sentence, whose text is probably defective. These words are not in the original.
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19th Century
Bishop
So for men to search their own glory is not glory. —The sense of this passage is very doubtful. It may mean, “But to search into difficult…
17th Century
Pastor
[It is] not good to eat much honey That is too much otherwise it is good to eat, (Proverbs 24:13) ; but …
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Minister
We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of people.