25:23. The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.
25:24. It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
25:25. As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good tidings from a far country.
25:26. A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot and a corrupted spring.
25:27. As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.
Majesty.... Viz., of God. For to search into that incomprehensible Majesty, and to pretend to sound the depths of the wisdom of God, is exposing our weak understanding to be blinded with an excess of light and glory, which it cannot comprehend.
25:28. As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.
Proverbs Chapter 26
26:1. As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool.
26:2. As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.