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Proverbs 18:12
Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Before his downfall a person’s heart is proud,but humility comes before honor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After pryde cometh destruccio, and honor after lowlynes.
American Standard Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility.
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.
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.
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.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughtie, and before honour is humilitie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before destruction the heart of a man is proude: and before honour goeth humilitie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility.
New Living Translation
Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor.
Contextual Overview
12 Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to 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
Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, "Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?"
Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, "Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?"
Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. He said, "Hurry. Get three cups of our best flour; knead it and make bread."
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. He said, "Hurry. Get three cups of our best flour; knead it and make bread."
Genesis 18:7
Then Abraham ran to the cattle pen and picked out a nice plump calf and gave it to the servant who lost no time getting it ready. Then he got curds and milk, brought them with the calf that had been roasted, set the meal before the men, and stood there under the tree while they ate.
Then Abraham ran to the cattle pen and picked out a nice plump calf and gave it to the servant who lost no time getting it ready. Then he got curds and milk, brought them with the calf that had been roasted, set the meal before the men, and stood there under the tree while they ate.
Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. Sarah was far past the age for having babies. Sarah laughed within herself, "An old woman like me? Get pregnant? With this old man of a husband?"
Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. Sarah was far past the age for having babies. Sarah laughed within herself, "An old woman like me? Get pregnant? With this old man of a husband?"
Genesis 18:13
God said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? An old woman like me?' Is anything too hard for God ? I'll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby."
God said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? An old woman like me?' Is anything too hard for God ? I'll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby."
Genesis 18:20
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."
1 Peter 3:6
Cultivate Inner Beauty The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated by your life of holy beauty. What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands. Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as "my dear husband." You'll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.
Cultivate Inner Beauty The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated by your life of holy beauty. What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands. Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as "my dear husband." You'll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.
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 ××¤× × ×©×ר "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.
