Proverbs 11:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 11

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

²When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Proverbs 11:1 Proverbs 11:3 →

Original word meaning

— of 6

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 16:18-19
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. …
Luke 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.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Fasting Gentleness Haughtiness Heart Humiliation and Self-Affliction

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2)

Observe, 1. How he that exalts himself is here abased, and contempt put upon him. When pride comes then comes shame. Pride is a sin which men have reason to be themselves ashamed of; it is a shame to a man who springs out of the earth, who lives upon alms, depends upon God, and has forfeited all he has, to be proud. It is a sin which others cry out shame on and look upon with disdain; he that is h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Self-conceit is unteachable; the humble grow wise (compare Pr 16:18; 18:12).