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

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When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
    but wisdom is with the humble.(A)

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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 despised and have produce[a]
    than to be self-important and lack food.

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Notas al pie

  1. 12.9 Cn: Heb servant

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

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10 By insolence the empty-headed person makes strife,
    but wisdom is with those who take advice.(A)

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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 maintains the widow’s boundaries.(A)

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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 The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
    and humility goes before honor.(A)

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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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All those who are arrogant are an abomination to the Lord;
    be assured, they will not go unpunished.(A)

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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 a haughty spirit before a fall.(A)
19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor
    than to divide the spoil 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 Before destruction one’s heart is haughty,
    but humility goes before honor.(A)

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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 and a proud heart—
    the lamp of the wicked—are sin.(A)

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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 person, named Scoffer,
    acts with arrogant pride.(A)

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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 for humility and fear of the Lord
    is riches 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 put yourself forward in the king’s presence
    or stand in the place of the great,
for 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(A)

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