Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroyeth them.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Cross References
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 19:3The folly of man distorteth his way, and his heart is irritated against Jehovah.
Proverbs 28:18Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].
Isaiah 1:28But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:3
2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. 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 haughty makes himself contemptible; it is a sin… Read the whole commentary →