தேனை மிகுதியாய் உண்பது நல்லதல்ல, தற்புகழை நாடுவதும் புகழல்ல.
Other Translations
King James Version (KJV)
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
American Standard Version (ASV)
It is not good to eat much honey: So `for men’ to search out their own glory is grievous.
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
Darby English Bible (DBY)
It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.
World English Bible (WEB)
It is not good to eat much honey; Nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one’s own honour — honour.
Cross Reference
Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
John 5:44
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
2 Corinthians 12:1
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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