When arrogance comes, disgrace follows,
but with humility comes wisdom.(A)

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(A)When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
    but with (B)the humble is wisdom.

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When pride comes, then comes disgrace,(A)
    but with humility comes wisdom.(B)

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Better to be disregarded, yet have a servant,
than to act important but have no food.(A)

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Better to be lowly and have a servant
    than to play the great man and lack bread.

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Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
    than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

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10 Arrogance leads to nothing but strife,(A)
but wisdom is gained by those who take advice.

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10 (A)By insolence comes nothing but strife,
    but with those who take advice is wisdom.

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10 Where there is strife, there is pride,
    but wisdom is found in those who take advice.(A)

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25 The Lord tears apart the house of the proud,
but he protects the widow’s territory.(A)

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25 The Lord tears down the house of (A)the proud
    but (B)maintains (C)the widow's boundaries.

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25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud,(A)
    but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.(B)

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33 The fear of the Lord is what wisdom teaches,
and humility comes before honor.(A)

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33 (A)The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
    and (B)humility comes before honor.

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33 Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the Lord,(A)
    and humility comes before honor.(B)

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Everyone with a proud heart is detestable to the Lord;(A)
be assured,[a] he will not go unpunished.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:5 Lit hand to hand

Everyone who is arrogant in heart is (A)an abomination to the Lord;
    (B)be assured, he will not go unpunished.

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The Lord detests all the proud of heart.(A)
    Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.(B)

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18 Pride comes before destruction,
and an arrogant spirit before a fall.(A)

19 Better to be lowly of spirit with the humble[a](B)
than to divide plunder with the proud.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:19 Alt Hb tradition reads afflicted

18 (A)Pride goes before destruction,
    and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 (B)It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
    than to (C)divide the spoil with the proud.

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18 Pride(A) goes before destruction,
    a haughty spirit(B) before a fall.(C)

19 Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed
    than to share plunder with the proud.

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12 Before his downfall a person’s heart is proud,(A)
but humility comes before honor.(B)

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12 (A)Before destruction a man's heart is haughty,
    but (B)humility comes before honor.

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12 Before a downfall the heart is haughty,
    but humility comes before honor.(A)

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The lamp that guides the wicked—
haughty eyes and an arrogant heart(A)—is sin.

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(A)Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
    (B)the lamp[a] of the wicked, are sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:4 Or the plowing

Haughty eyes(A) and a proud heart—
    the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.

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