Proverbs 18:12

Bishop's Bible

Before destruction the heart of a man is proude: and before honour goeth humilitie.

Parallel Translations

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.

English Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

New American Standard Bible
Before destruction the heart of a person is haughty, But humility goes before honor.

New Century Version
Proud people will be ruined, but the humble will be honored.

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

World English Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Before destruction the heart of a man is hautie, and before glory goeth lowlines.

Legacy Standard Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,But humility goes before glory.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After pryde cometh destruccio, and honor after lowlynes.

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.

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Before ruin a man’s heart is exalted, and before honour it is humble.

English Revised Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour goeth humility.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The herte of man is enhaunsid, bifor that it be brokun; and it is maad meke, bifore that it be glorified.

Update Bible Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor [goes] humility.

Webster's Bible Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.

New English Translation
Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

New King James Version
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility.

New Living Translation
Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.

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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.

THE MESSAGE
Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor.

Contextual Overview

¹² Before destruction the heart of a man is proude: and before honour goeth humilitie.

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
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Genesis 18:6
And Abraham went apace into the tent vnto Sara, & sayde: Make redy at once three peckes of fine meale, kneade [it] and make cakes vpon the hearth.

Genesis 18:7
And Abraham runnyng vnto his beastes, fet a calfe tender and good, and gaue it vnto a young man, and he hasted to make it redy at once.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.

Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?

Genesis 18:13
And God said vnto Abraham: wherfore dyd Sara laugh, saying, shall I of a suertie beare a chylde, which am olde?

Genesis 18:18
Seyng that Abraham shall surely be a great and a myghtie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in hym?

Genesis 18:20
And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:

Psalms 126:2
Then shall our mouth be filled with a laughter: and our tongue with a ioyfull noyse. Then shall suche as be amongst the Heathen say: God hath brought great thinges to passe, that he myght do for them.

Ephesians 5:33
Therfore euery one of you [do ye so] Let euery one of you loue his wyfe euen as hym selfe, and [let] the wyfe reuerence her husbande.

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.