Proverbs 18:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Proverbs 18:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Bowels Conceit Fasting Gentleness Haughtiness Heart

Commentary

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

(vv. 12)

Note, 1. Pride is the presage of ruin, and ruin will at last be the punishment of pride; for before destruction men are commonly so infatuated by the just judgment of God that they are more haughty than ever, that their ruin may be the sorer and the more surprising. Of, if that do not always hold, yet after the heart has been lifted up with pride, a fall comes, Prov. 16:18. 2. Humility is the pres…

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

(vv. 12)

12. (Compare Pr 15:33; 16:18).