Proverbs 16:19
It is better to be humble and poor than to associate with proud people and to become rich by dividing with them ◄plunder/goods captured in a battle►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
In Context
20Those who heed good teaching/instruction will prosper; happy are those who trust in Yahweh.
Cross References
Psalms 34:18Yahweh is always ready to help those who are discouraged; he rescues those who have nothing good to hope for.
Proverbs 25:7it is better if someone tells you to sit closer to the king than for someone to tell you, while the king is listening, to sit further away in order that someone who is more important may sit closer to the king.
Isaiah 9:3Yahweh, you will cause us people in Israel to rejoice; we will become very happy. We will rejoice about what you have done like [SIM] people rejoice when they harvest their crops, or like soldiers rejoice when they divide up among themselves the things that they have captured in a battle.
Isaiah 10:13He says, ‘By my own great power [MTY] I have done these things. I have been able to do them because I am very wise and very intelligent. My army removed the barriers at the borders of nations and carried away all their valuable things. My army has knocked down their kings like [SIM] a ferocious bull would.
Isaiah 57:15Because this is what I, Yahweh, who am holy and greatly honored and who live forever, say: I live in the highest heaven, where everything is holy, but I also am with those who are humble and who are sorry for the sinful things that they have done. I will greatly encourage [DOU] those who have repented.
Luke 1:51He shows people that he [MTY] is very powerful. He scatters those who think proudly.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:19
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Note, 1. Pride will have a fall. Those that are of a haughty spirit, that think of themselves above what is meet, and look with contempt upon others, that with their pride affront God and disquiet others, will be brought down, either by repentance or by ruin. It is the honour of God to humble the proud, Job xl. 11, 12 . It is the act of justice that those who have lifted up themselves should be laid low. Pharaoh, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar,… Read the whole commentary →