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When pride comes, then comes shame,
    but with humility comes wisdom.

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

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Better is he who is little known, and has a servant,
    than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

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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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10 Pride only breeds quarrels,
    but wisdom is with people who take advice.

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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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25 Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud,
    but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

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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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33 The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom.
    Before honor is humility.

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

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Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh:
    they shall certainly not be unpunished.

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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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18 Pride goes before destruction,
    and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,
    than to divide the plunder with the proud.

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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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12 Before destruction the heart of man is proud,
    but before honor is humility.

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

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A high look and a proud heart,
    the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

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

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24 The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name—
    he works in the arrogance of pride.

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

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The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh
    is wealth, honor, and life.

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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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Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king,
    or claim a place among great men;
for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
    than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince,
    whom your eyes have seen.

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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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