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Proverbs 18:12

Before disaster the heart of a man is haughty and filled with self-importance, But humility comes before honor.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Heart;   Humility;   Presumption;   Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Heart;   Honor;   Humility;   Man;   Pride/arrogance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;   Humility;   Pride;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Humility;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Sihon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Humility;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Honor;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.
Update Bible Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor [goes] humility.
New Century Version
Proud people will be ruined, but the humble will be honored.
New English Translation
Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Webster's Bible Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.
World English Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.
English Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The herte of man is enhaunsid, bifor that it be brokun; and it is maad meke, bifore that it be glorified.
English Revised Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour goeth humility.
Berean Standard Bible
Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Contemporary English Version
Pride leads to destruction; humility leads to honor.
American Standard Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility.
Bible in Basic English
Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
Complete Jewish Bible
Before being ruined, a person's heart is proud; before being honored, a person must be humble.
Darby Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour [goeth] humility.
Easy-to-Read Version
A proud person will soon be ruined, but a humble person will be honored.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honour goeth humility.
King James Version (1611)
Before destruction the heart of man is haughtie, and before honour is humilitie.
New Life Bible
The heart of a man is proud before he is destroyed, but having no pride goes before honor.
New Revised Standard
Before destruction one's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Before destruction the heart of a man is hautie, and before glory goeth lowlines.
George Lamsa Translation
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty; and before honor is humility.
Good News Translation
No one is respected unless he is humble; arrogant people are on the way to ruin.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Before grievous injury, a man's heart is haughty, and, before honour, is humility.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.
Revised Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before destruction the heart of a man is proude: and before honour goeth humilitie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Before ruin a man’s heart is exalted, and before honour it is humble.
Christian Standard Bible®
Before his downfall a person’s heart is proud,but humility comes before honor.
Hebrew Names Version
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.
King James Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Lexham English Bible
In the presence of destruction, the heart of a man will be haughty, but in the presence of honor, humble.
Literal Translation
Before shattering, a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
Young's Literal Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After pryde cometh destruccio, and honor after lowlynes.
THE MESSAGE
Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.
New American Standard Bible
Before destruction the heart of a person is haughty, But humility goes before honor.
New King James Version
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor.
Legacy Standard Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,But humility goes before glory.

Contextual Overview

12Before disaster the heart of a man is haughty and filled with self-importance, But humility comes before honor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

destruction: Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 29:23, Ezekiel 16:49, Ezekiel 16:50, Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:9, Daniel 5:23, Daniel 5:24, Acts 12:21-23

and: Proverbs 15:33, Job 42:6-17, Isaiah 6:5-13, Daniel 9:20, Daniel 9:23, Luke 14:11, 1 Peter 5:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:3 - humble Numbers 16:27 - and stood 1 Samuel 17:44 - Come to me 1 Samuel 18:18 - Who am I 1 Samuel 25:41 - thine 1 Kings 1:5 - exalted 1 Kings 20:18 - General Esther 6:6 - To whom Proverbs 17:19 - he that Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Isaiah 10:14 - And my Jeremiah 48:29 - his loftiness Jeremiah 50:32 - the most proud Ezekiel 29:9 - because Ezekiel 31:10 - and his Hosea 13:1 - Ephraim Obadiah 1:3 - pride Habakkuk 2:9 - set Luke 9:48 - he that Luke 18:14 - every 1 Timothy 3:6 - lest James 4:6 - giveth grace

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly, get ready three measures of fine meal, knead it and bake cakes."
Genesis 18:7
Abraham also ran to the herd and brought a calf, tender and choice, and he gave it to the servant [to butcher], and he hurried to prepare it.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in years; she was past [the age of] childbearing.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself [when she heard the LORD'S words], saying, "After I have become old, shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband) being also old?"
Genesis 18:13
And the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh [to herself], saying, 'Shall I really give birth [to a child] when I am so old?'
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?
Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, "The outcry [of the sin] of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with joyful shouting; Then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Ephesians 5:33
However, each man among you [without exception] is to love his wife as his very own self [with behavior worthy of respect and esteem, always seeking the best for her with an attitude of lovingkindness], and the wife [must see to it] that she respects and delights in her husband [that she notices him and prefers him and treats him with loving concern, treasuring him, honoring him, and holding him dear].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,.... Lifted up with his riches. Rich men are apt to be highminded, and therefore are to be charged and cautioned against it; they are apt to look above their poor neighbours, and with contempt upon them; and very often this haughtiness of theirs is a presage of their ruin and destruction: and those haughty airs are put on from the pride of their hearts, when a "breach" is near, as the word u signifies, or when they are ready to break; however, their haughty spirits are, sooner or later, humbled by one distressing providence or another; see Proverbs 16:18;

and before honour [is] humility; Proverbs 16:18- :.

u לפני שבר "ante confractionem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before - In the sense of priority of time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:12. Before destruction — See on Proverbs 11:2; Proverbs 16:18.


 
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