Proverbs 18:12
Proud people are on the road to being ruined, but being humble leads to being honored.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 3:7“Now, Yahweh my God, you have appointed me to be the king like my father was. But I am very young, like a little child [MET]. I do not know how to lead/rule my people at all [IDM].
Proverbs 11:2People who are proud will eventually be disgraced; it is wise to be humble.
Proverbs 16:18Being proud will ◄lead to your having/cause you to have► disasters; despising others will result in your being ruined.
Isaiah 6:5Then I said, “Terrible things will happen to me, because everything that I say [MTY] is sinful, and I live among people who constantly say [MTY] sinful things. I will be destroyed because I have seen the Commander of the armies of angels!”
Ezekiel 28:2“You human, give to the king of Tyre this message from me, Yahweh the Lord: ‘You have very proudly claimed, “I am a god! I sit on a throne of a god in a city on an island in the sea!” You boast that you are a god; but you are only a man, not a god.
Daniel 5:23You have considered yourself to be greater than God, the Lord of heaven. So you have commanded your servants to bring to you these sacred cups, which were dedicated to the Supreme God, and which were taken from his temple in Jerusalem. You and your officials and your wives and your ◄concubines/slave wives► have been drinking wine from these cups, while you have been praising your own gods—gods which are made of gold and silver and bronze and iron and wood and stone. Those are gods that cannot see, that cannot hear, and that do not know anything! You have not honored the God who gives you breath and who controls everything that happens to you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:12
11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Having described the firm and faithful defence of the righteous man ( v. 10 ), Solomon here shows what is the false and deceitful defence of the rich man, that has his portion and treasure in the things of this world, and sets his heart upon them. His wealth is as much his confidence, and he expects as much from it, as a godly man from his God. See, 1. How he supports himself. He makes his wealth his city, where he dwells, where… Read the whole commentary →