6Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-7)Here we see, 1. That religion is so far from destroying good manners that it reaches us to behave ourselves lowly and reverently towards our superiors, to keep our distance, and give place to those to whom it belongs “ Put not forth thyself rudely and carelessly in the king’s presence , or in the presence of great men; do not compare with them ” (so some understand it); “do not vie with them in ap…
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