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When pride comes, then comes disgrace;
    but with the humble is wisdom.

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When pride cometh, then cometh shame;
But with the lowly is wisdom.

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

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Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself
    than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

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Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant,
Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh 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 By insolence the heedless make strife,
    but with those who take advice is wisdom.

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10 By pride cometh only contention;
But with the well-advised 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 down the house of the proud,
    but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

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25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud;
But he will establish the border of the widow.

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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 instruction in wisdom,
    and humility goes before honor.

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33 The fear of Jehovah is the instruction of wisdom;
And before honor goeth humility.

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

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Every one who is arrogant is an abomination to the Lord;
    be assured, he will not go unpunished.

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Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah:
Though hand join in hand, he shall not be 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 goes before destruction,
    and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
    than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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18 Pride goeth before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the [a]poor,
Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:19 Or, meek

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 destruction a man’s heart is haughty,
    but humility goes before honor.

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12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty;
And before honor goeth humility.

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

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Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
    the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

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A high look, and a proud heart,
[a]Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:4 Or, And the tillage

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

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