Proverbs 18:3
Whenever people do wicked things, others will despise them; when people do things that cause themselves to no longer be honored, they will be disgraced also.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:4Then I prayed. I said, “Our God, hear us, because they are ridiculing us! Cause the words of their insults to fall back on them! Allow their enemies to come and capture them and force them to go to a foreign land!
Psalms 69:20Their insults have deeply offended me, and I ◄feel helpless/am in despair►. I searched for someone who would pity me, but there was no one. I wanted someone to encourage/comfort me, but there were none.
Proverbs 11:2People who are proud will eventually be disgraced; it is wise to be humble.
Proverbs 22:10If you get rid of those who make fun of everything that is good, there will no more arguing or quarreling or insulting other people.
Matthew 27:39The people who were passing by insulted him by shaking their heads as if he were an evil man.
1 Peter 4:14If you are insulted {If people insult you} because you believe in Christ [MTY], God is pleased with you, because it shows that the Spirit of God, the Spirit who reveals how great God is, lives within you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:3
2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. A fool may pretend to understanding, and to seek and intermeddle with the means of it, but, 1. He has no true delight in it; it is only to please his friends or save his credit; he does not love his book, nor his business, nor his Bible, nor his prayers; he would rather be playing the fool with his sports. Those who take no pleasure in learning or religion will make nothing to purpose of either. No progress is made in them if they… Read the whole commentary →