Proverbs 11:3
The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.
4Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
Cross References
Psalms 25:21The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 19:3The folly of a man supplanteth his seeps: and he fretteth in his mind against God.
Proverbs 28:18He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Isaiah 1:28And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, 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 →