² When pride comes, then comes disgrace,^(A)
    but with humility comes wisdom.^(B)

⁹ Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
    than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

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

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

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

⁵ The Lord detests all the proud of heart.^(A)
    Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.^(B)

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.

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

⁴ Haughty eyes^(A) and a proud heart—
    the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.