Proverbs 11:3
People who are good are guided by doing what is honest; those who are not honest will be ruined because of the wrong things that they do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
2People who are proud will eventually be disgraced; it is wise to be humble.
Cross References
Psalms 25:21Protect me because I do what is good and honest/just [PRS], and because I trust in you.
Proverbs 11:5When people are honest and good, that will ◄direct their paths/show them what is right for them to do►; but wicked people will experience disasters because of the evil things that they do.
Proverbs 19:3Some people are ruined as a result of their own foolish actions, and when that happens, they [SYN] angrily say that it is Yahweh’s fault.
Proverbs 28:18Those who continually do what is right will be safe/protected, but those who are dishonest will suddenly be ruined.
Isaiah 1:28But rebels and sinners will be crushed by Yahweh, and those who forsake him will disappear.
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 →