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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 11:2

Too much pride can put you to shame. It's wiser to be humble.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Humility;   Pride;   Thompson Chain Reference - Honour-Dishonour;   Humility-Pride;   Pride;   Shame;   The Topic Concordance - Lowliness;   Pride/arrogance;   Shame;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pride;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Pride;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Humility;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When arrogance comes, disgrace follows,but with humility comes wisdom.
Hebrew Names Version
When pride comes, then comes shame, But with humility comes wisdom.
King James Version
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
English Standard Version
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
New American Standard Bible
When pride comes, then comes dishonor; But with the humble there is wisdom.
New Century Version
Pride leads only to shame; it is wise to be humble.
New English Translation
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Amplified Bible
When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame, But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.
World English Bible
When pride comes, then comes shame, But with humility comes wisdom.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowly is wisdome.
Legacy Standard Bible
When arrogance comes, then comes disgrace,But with the meek is wisdom.
Berean Standard Bible
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
Complete Jewish Bible
First comes pride, then disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.
Darby Translation
[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
Easy-to-Read Version
Proud and boastful people will be shamed, but wisdom stays with those who are modest and humble.
George Lamsa Translation
Where baseness comes, then comes shame; but with the meek is wisdom.
Good News Translation
People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
Lexham English Bible
Pride comes, then disgrace comes, but wisdom is with the humble.
Literal Translation
Pride comes, then shame comes, but with the lowly is wisdom.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Where pryde is, there is shame also and confucion: but where as is lowlynes, there is wysdome.
American Standard Version
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
Bible in Basic English
When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
King James Version (1611)
When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowly is wisedome.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Where pryde is, there is shame also and confusion: but wheras is lowlinesse, there is wisdome.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wherever pride enters, there will be also disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom.
English Revised Version
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Where pride is, there also dispising schal be; but where meeknesse is, there also is wisdom.
Update Bible Version
When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
Webster's Bible Translation
[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom.
New King James Version
When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.
New Living Translation
Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
New Life Bible
When pride comes, then comes shame, but wisdom is with those who have no pride.
New Revised Standard
When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but wisdom is with the humble.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When pride cometh, then cometh contempt, but, with the modest, is wisdom.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.
Revised Standard Version
When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.
Young's Literal Translation
Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly [is] wisdom.
THE MESSAGE
The stuck-up fall flat on their faces, but down-to-earth people stand firm.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When pride comes, then comes dishonor, But with the humble is wisdom.

Contextual Overview

2 Too much pride can put you to shame. It's wiser to be humble.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pride: Proverbs 3:34, Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 16:19, Daniel 4:30-32, Luke 14:8-11, Luke 18:14

but: Proverbs 15:33, 1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 8:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:1 - Absalom 2 Chronicles 32:21 - with shame Proverbs 18:3 - General Proverbs 18:12 - destruction Ezekiel 28:17 - heart Luke 14:9 - and thou

Cross-References

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself, and as he started toward the east, he and Abram separated.
Genesis 14:1
About this time, King Amraphel of Babylonia, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim
Isaiah 11:11
When that day comes, the Lord will again reach out his mighty arm and bring home his people who have survived in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the land along the coast.
Daniel 1:2
The Lord let Nebuchadnezzar capture Jehoiakim and take away some of the things used in God's temple. And when the king returned to Babylonia, he put these things in the temple of his own god.
Zechariah 5:11
"To Babylonia," he answered, "where they will build a house for the basket and set it down inside."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame,.... The one follows the other, or rather keep pace together; as soon as one comes, the other comes; as in the case of the angels that sinned, Adam and Eve, Haman, Nebuchadnezzar, and others; and will be the case of the Romish antichrist, who, while vaunting and priding himself in his glory and grandeur, will fall into shame, disgrace, and destruction, Revelation 18:7;

but with the lowly [is] wisdom; or wisdom shall come, as Jarchi: the consequence of which is honour and glory; as with Christ, who is meek and lowly, are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; so with his humble followers, who reckon themselves the least of saints, and chief of sinners, and own that it is by the grace of God they are what they are, is true wisdom; they are wise unto salvation, and in the way to honour and glory; such humble souls shall be exalted, Luke 14:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A rabbinic paraphrase of the second clause is: “Lowly souls become full of wisdom as the low place becomes full of water.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 11:2. When pride cometh — The proud man thinks much more of himself than any other can do; and, expecting to be treated according to his own supposed worth, which treatment he seldom meets with, he is repeatedly mortified, ashamed, confounded, and rendered indignant.

With the lowly — צנועים tsenuim, ταπεινων, the humble, the modest, as opposed to the proud, referred to in the first clause. The humble man looks for nothing but justice; has the meanest opinion of himself; expects nothing in the way of commendation or praise; and can never be disappointed but in receiving praise, which he neither expects nor desires.


 
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