2When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. …
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.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
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…
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