Proverbs 26:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 26:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 29:20
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. …
Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Confidence Egotism False Confidence Fool Haughtiness

Commentary

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

(vv. 12)

Here is, 1. A spiritual disease supposed, and that is self-conceit: Seest thou a man? Yes, we see many a one, wise in his own conceit, who has some little sense, but is proud of it, thinks it much more than it is, more than any of his neighbours, have, and enough, so that he needs no more, has such a conceit of his own abilities as makes him opinionative, dogmatical, and censorious; and all the us…

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

(vv. 12)

12. The self-conceited are taught with more difficulty than the stupid.