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

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Pride leads to disgrace,
    but with humility comes 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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Better to be an ordinary person with a servant
    than to be self-important but have no food.

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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 Pride leads to conflict;
    those who take advice are wise.

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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 Lord tears down the house of the proud,
    but he protects the property of widows.

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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 the Lord teaches wisdom;
    humility precedes honor.

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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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The Lord detests the proud;
    they will surely be punished.

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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 Pride goes before destruction,
    and haughtiness before a fall.

19 Better to live humbly with the poor
    than to share plunder 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 Haughtiness goes before destruction;
    humility precedes honor.

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

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Haughty eyes, a proud heart,
    and evil actions are all 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 Mockers are proud and haughty;
    they act with boundless arrogance.

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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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True humility and fear of the Lord
    lead to riches, honor, and long 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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Don’t demand an audience with the king
    or push for a place among the great.
It’s better to wait for an invitation to the head table
    than to be sent away in public disgrace.

Just because you’ve seen something,

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