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

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Pride comes, then disgrace comes,
    but wisdom is with the humble.

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When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

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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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It is better to be lowly and a servant to someone[a]
    than self-glorifying and lacking food.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:9 Literally “for him,” “belonging to him”

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

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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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10 Only by insolence is strife set up,
    and wisdom is with those who take advice.

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10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

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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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25 The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down,
    but he will maintain the property line[a] of the widow.

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  1. Proverbs 15:25 Literally “boundary”

25 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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

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33 Fear of Yahweh is the instruction of the wise,
    and before honor comes humility.

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33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

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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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An abomination of Yahweh are all who are arrogant of heart;[a]
    rest assured,[b] he will not go unpunished.

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  1. Proverbs 16:5 Or “mind”
  2. Proverbs 16:5 Literally “hand to hand”

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

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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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18 Before destruction comes pride,
    and before a fall, a haughty spirit.[a]
19 Better a lowly spirit with the poor
    than dividing the spoil with the proud.

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  1. Proverbs 16:18 Hebrew “a haughty of spirit”

18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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

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12 In the presence of destruction, the heart[a] of a man will be haughty,
    but in the presence of honor, humble.

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  1. Proverbs 18:12 Or “mind”

12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

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

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Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart,
    the lamp of the wicked are sin.

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An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

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