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Selected Verse: Proverbs 16:18 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 16:18 |
Strong Concordance |
Pride [01347] goeth before [06440] destruction [07667], and an haughty [01363] spirit [07307] before [06440] a fall [03783]. |
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King James |
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Pro 15:33). Haughtiness and pride imply self-confidence which produces carelessness, and hence
a fall--literally, "sliding." |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
18 Pride goeth before destruction,
And haughtiness cometh before a fall.
The contrast is לפני כבוד ענוה, Pro 15:33, according to which the "haughtiness comes before a fall" in Pro 18:22 is expanded into the antithetic distich. שׁבר means the fracture of the limbs, destruction of the person. A Latin proverb says, "Magna cadunt, inflata crepant, tumefacta premuntur."
(Note: An expression of similar meaning is אחרי דרגא תביר = after Darga (to rise up) comes tebı̂r (breaking = destruction); cf. Zunz, in Geiger's Zeitschrift, vi. 315ff.)
Here being dashed in pieces and overthrown correspond. שׁבר means neither bursting (Hitzig) nor shipwreck (Ewald). כשּׁלון (like בּטּחון, זכּרון, etc.), from כּשׁל or נכשׁל, to totter, and hence, as a consequence, to come to ruin, is a ἅπαχ λεγ. This proverb, which stands in the very centre of the Book of Proverbs, is followed by another in praise of humility. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Pride goeth before destruction - Here pride is personified: it walks along, and has destruction in its train.
And a haughty spirit before a fall - Another personification. A haughty spirit marches on, and ruin comes after.
In this verse we find the following Masoretic note in most Hebrew Bibles. חצי הספר chatsi hassepher: "the middle of the book." This verse is the middle verse; and the first clause makes the middle of the words of the book of Proverbs. |
33 The fear [03374] of the LORD [03068] is the instruction [04148] of wisdom [02451]; and before [06440] honour [03519] is humility [06038].
22 Whoso findeth [04672] a wife [0802] findeth [04672] a good [02896] thing, and obtaineth [06329] favour [07522] of the LORD [03068].
33 The fear [03374] of the LORD [03068] is the instruction [04148] of wisdom [02451]; and before [06440] honour [03519] is humility [06038].