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Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pride;   Thompson Chain Reference - Humility-Pride;   Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Pride/arrogance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Backsliding;   Pride;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pride;   Spirit;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Pride;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Humility;   Pardon;   Pride;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Humility;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Belshazzar;   Herod;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Sihon;   Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Spirit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Holy Spirit;   Quarries;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
Update Bible Version
Pride [goes] before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
New Century Version
Pride leads to destruction; a proud attitude brings ruin.
Webster's Bible Translation
Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
World English Bible
Pride goes before destruction, A haughty spirit before a fall.
Amplified Bible
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
English Standard Version
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Pride goith bifore sorewe; and the spirit schal be enhaunsid byfor fallyng.
English Revised Version
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Berean Standard Bible
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Contemporary English Version
Too much pride will destroy you.
American Standard Version
Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Bible in Basic English
Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Complete Jewish Bible
Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before failure.
Darby Translation
Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Easy-to-Read Version
Pride is the first step toward destruction. Proud thoughts will lead you to defeat.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
King James Version (1611)
Pride goeth before destruction: and an hautie spirit before a fall.
New Life Bible
Pride comes before being destroyed and a proud spirit comes before a fall.
New Revised Standard
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Pride goeth before destruction, and an high minde before the fall.
George Lamsa Translation
Disgrace goes before destruction, and pride before misfortune.
Good News Translation
Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.
Revised Standard Version
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Pryde goeth before destruction, and an hygh mynde before the fall.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall.
Christian Standard Bible®
Pride comes before destruction,and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Hebrew Names Version
Pride goes before destruction, A haughty spirit before a fall.
King James Version
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Lexham English Bible
Before destruction comes pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit.
Literal Translation
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Young's Literal Translation
Before destruction [is] pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Presumptuousnes goeth before destruccion, and after a proude stomake there foloweth a fall.
THE MESSAGE
First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
New American Standard Bible
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
New King James Version
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
Legacy Standard Bible
Pride goes before destruction,And a haughty spirit before stumbling.

Contextual Overview

18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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.


 
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