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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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”

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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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”

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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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”

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”

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”

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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24 The proud and arrogant person(A)—“Mocker” is his name—
    behaves with insolent fury.

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24 The proud, haughty one: “scoffer” is his name;
    he acts with arrogance of pride.

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Humility is the fear of the Lord;
    its wages are riches and honor(A) and life.(B)

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The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh—
    wealth and honor and life.

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Do not exalt yourself in the king’s presence,
    and do not claim a place among his great men;
it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,”(A)
    than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.

What you have seen with your eyes

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Do not promote yourself before the king,
    and in the place of the great ones do not stand.
For it is better that he say to you, “Ascend here,”
    than he humble you before a noble.
What your eyes have seen,

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