12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
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The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
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.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
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:
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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…
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