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New American Standard Bible
Proverbs 16:18
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Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an high minde before the fall.
Pride comes before destruction,and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, A haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride is the first step toward destruction. Proud thoughts will lead you to defeat.
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Too much pride will destroy you.
Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before failure.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goeth before destruction: and an hautie spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Before destruction comes pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride leads to destruction; a proud attitude brings ruin.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
Pride comes before being destroyed and a proud spirit comes before a fall.
Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!
Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.
Disgrace goes before destruction, and pride before misfortune.
Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Pryde goeth before destruction, and an hygh mynde before the fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goith bifore sorewe; and the spirit schal be enhaunsid byfor fallyng.
Before destruction [is] pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'
Pride goes before destruction, A haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride [goes] before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Presumptuousnes goeth before destruccion, and after a proude stomake there foloweth a fall.
First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
Pride goes before destruction,And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 17:19, Proverbs 18:12, Proverbs 29:23, Esther 3:5, Esther 6:6, Esther 7:10, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 37:10-13, Isaiah 37:38, Daniel 4:30-37, Daniel 5:22, Daniel 5:24, Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4, Matthew 26:33-35, Matthew 26:74, Romans 11:20, 1 Timothy 3:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:2 - General Numbers 16:27 - and stood Judges 11:28 - General 1 Samuel 17:10 - give me 2 Samuel 15:1 - Absalom 2 Samuel 17:23 - saw 1 Kings 1:5 - exalted 1 Kings 12:14 - My father made 2 Kings 14:10 - thine heart 2 Kings 14:13 - took Amaziah 2 Chronicles 25:19 - heart 2 Chronicles 25:23 - took Amaziah 2 Chronicles 26:16 - when he was 2 Chronicles 32:21 - with shame Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Isaiah 3:16 - are haughty Isaiah 9:9 - in the pride Isaiah 36:4 - Thus saith Jeremiah 13:9 - the pride Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Jeremiah 48:42 - magnified Jeremiah 49:16 - terribleness Jeremiah 50:32 - the most proud Ezekiel 7:10 - pride Ezekiel 16:49 - pride Ezekiel 16:50 - and committed Ezekiel 17:6 - it grew Ezekiel 28:2 - Because Ezekiel 28:17 - heart Ezekiel 29:9 - because Ezekiel 31:10 - and his Daniel 5:20 - when Daniel 11:12 - his heart Matthew 20:22 - We Matthew 23:12 - General Mark 14:31 - he spake Luke 11:43 - for Luke 14:9 - and thou Luke 18:14 - every John 13:38 - Wilt Romans 11:18 - Boast not Romans 12:3 - not to 1 Corinthians 10:12 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Pride [goeth] before destruction,.... As it did in the angels that sinned, who, through pride, fell into condemnation, not being able to bear the thought that the human nature, in the person of the Son of God, should be advanced above theirs; and as it did in our first parents, who, not content with their present state and circumstances, and ambitious of being as gods, knowing good and evil, ruined themselves and all their posterity; and as it has done in many of their sons, as in Haman, Nebuchadnezzar, and others;
and a haughty spirit before a fall; or, "a high spirit", or "height of spirit" i; a man that carries his head high; looks upwards, and not to his goings, sees not at what he may stumble, and so falls: moreover, the bigger a person or thing is, the greater is the fall; and very often when a man has got to the height of his riches and honour, and is swelling with pride and vanity on account of it, he is on the precipice of ruin, and his fall is immediate; which was the case of Nebuchadnezzar, who while he was expressing himself in the haughtiness of his spirit, being in the height of his glory, his kingdom departed from him, Daniel 4:30; and this will be the case of the man of sin, or antichrist, Revelation 18:7.
i גבה רוח "elitio spiritus", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "altitudo spiritus", Piscator; "celstudo aniimi", Cocceius; "altifrons elatio spiritus", Schultens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 16:18. Pride goeth before destruction — Here pride is personified: it walks along, and has destruction in its train.
And a haughty spirit before a fall. — Another personification. A haughty spirit marches on, and ruin comes after.
In this verse we find the following Masoretic note in most Hebrew Bibles. חצי הספר chatsi hassepher: "the middle of the book." This verse is the middle verse; and the first clause makes the middle of the words of the book of Proverbs.
