Proverbs 25:27

is not glory The words is notare not in the Heb., but are supplied both in A.V. and R.V. text. The R.V. marg. has, "Butfor men to search out their own glory is glory. The Hebrew text is obscure."

It would seem as though the author of the proverb threw down in the second clause the terms of the comparison and left us to adjust them: "so is it with searching out your own glory, and glory"; q.d. Glory, like honey, is a good thing, but to be too much engrossed with your own share of the one is like eating too much of the other.