27 It is not good to eat much honey: so to search their own glory, is not glory.

28 A man that refraineth not his appetite, is like a city which is [a]broken down and without walls.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:28 And so is in extreme danger.

27 It is not good to eat too much honey,(A)
    nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.(B)

28 Like a city whose walls are broken through
    is a person who lacks self-control.

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