箴言 25:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你在君王面前，不可妄自尊大；也不可擅自站立在大人物中間。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 要 在 王 面 前 妄 自 尊 大 ； 不 要 在 大 人 的 位 上 站 立 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ Don't brag to the king and act as if you are great. ⁷ It is better for him to give you a higher position than to bring you down in front of the prince. Because of something you have seen,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Put not forth thyself: Heb. Set not out thy glory, Proverbs 25:27, Proverbs 27:2

in the presence: Proverbs 16:19, Exodus 3:11, 1 Samuel 9:20-22, 1 Samuel 15:17, 1 Samuel 18:18-23, 2 Samuel 7:8-17, Psalms 131:1, Jeremiah 1:6-10, Amos 7:12-15

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:4 - Oh that I Proverbs 15:33 - and Matthew 23:6 - General Matthew 25:40 - the King Luke 14:8 - When Luke 14:10 - go

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
It was after he had lived ten years in Canaan that Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.)

Genesis 21:14
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a leather bag full of water. He gave them to Hagar and sent her away. Carrying these things and her son, Hagar went and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.

Genesis 25:1
Abraham married again, and his new wife was Keturah.

Genesis 25:2
She gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Genesis 25:11
After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac was now living at Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 25:13
These are the names of Ishmael's sons in the order they were born: Nebaioth, the first son, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Genesis 25:14
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Bilhah, her slave girl, to Jacob as a wife, and he had sexual relations with her.

Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king,.... Intrude not thyself into his presence; or rush not into it in a rude and irreverent way; or be not ambitious to be a courtier: or "do not appear glorious", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; or "honour thyself" a as the word signifies; do not appear too gay at court, or make too splendid an appearance, above thy fortune and station; and which may seem to vie with and outdo the king himself, which will not be well taken; princes love not to be equalled, and much less excelled;

and stand not in the place of great [men]; where the king's family or his nobles should stand, his ministers and counsellors of state, and those that wait upon him.

a אל תתהדר "ne tibi assumas honorem", Cocceius; "ne honores teipsum", Michaelis; "ne magnificum te facias", Schultens; "ne magnifices te", Pagninus, Mercerus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The pushing, boastful temper is, in the long run, suicidal. It is wiser as well as nobler to take the lower place at first in humility, than to take it afterward with shame. Compare Luke 14:8-10, which is one of the few instances in which our Lord’s teaching was fashioned, as to its outward form, upon that of this book.