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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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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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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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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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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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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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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  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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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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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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  1. Proverbs 21:4 Or the plowing

24 The arrogant and proud person, named “Mocker,”
acts with excessive arrogance.(A)

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24 (A)“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man
    who acts with arrogant pride.

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Humility, the fear of the Lord,
results in wealth, honor, and life.(A)

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The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
    is (A)riches and honor and life.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 22:4 Or The reward for humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and honor and life

Don’t boast about yourself before the king,
and don’t stand in the place of the great;
for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here!”
than to demote you in plain view of a noble.[a](A)

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  1. 25:7 Lit you before a noble whom your eyes see

Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence
    or stand in the place of the great,
for (A)it is better to be told, “Come up here,”
    than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.

What your eyes have seen

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