Proverbs 11:2
Wherever pride enters, there will be also disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
In Context
1False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable to him.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:34+ 3:34 See 1 Pet 5:5. The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23Pride brings a man low, but the Lord upholds the humble-minded with honor.
Daniel 4:30In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions' hairs, and his nails as birds' claws.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:2
Weighty Sayings. 1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is his delight. As religion towards God is a branch of universal righteousness (he is not an honest man that is not devout), so righteousness towards men is a branch of true religion, for he is not a godly man that is not honest, nor can he expect that his devotion should be accepted; for, 1. Nothing is more offensive to God than deceit in commerce. A false balance is here put for all manner of unjust and fraudulent practices in… Read the whole commentary →