Proverbs 11:2
1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
- KJV
- When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
- WEB
- When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
- ASV
- When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
- DARBY
- [When] pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
- BLB
- Pride has come, and shame also comes, and with the humble [is] wisdom.
- ÅB
- Med overmot følger skam, men de ydmyke har visdom.
- OTB
- Når stolthet kommer, følger skam, men med de ydmyke er det visdom.
- B1930
- Med overmot følger skam, men de ydmyke har visdom.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Read in contextProverbs 16:18–19
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Read in contextProverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Read in contextLuke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Read in contextProverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Read in contextProverbs 3:34–35
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Read in context1 Corinthians 8:1–2
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
Read in contextLuke 14:8–11
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
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