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New American Standard Bible

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of a person is haughty, But humility goes 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

English Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Before destruction the heart of a man is hautie, and before glory goeth lowlines.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
A proud person will soon be ruined, but a humble person will be honored.
Amplified Bible
Before disaster the heart of a man is haughty and filled with self-importance, But humility comes before honor.
American Standard Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility.
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.
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.
Berean Standard Bible
Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
King James Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before destruction the heart of a man is proude: and before honour goeth humilitie.
New Revised Standard
Before destruction one's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
Darby Translation
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.
Young's Literal Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.
World English Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.
Revised Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
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 (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

12 Before destruction the heart of a person is haughty, But humility goes 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, "Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth to a child?"
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread cakes."
Genesis 18:7
Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
Genesis 18:13
But the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I actually give birth to a child, when I am so old?'
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, "The outcry 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
Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

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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