Proverbs 11:2
in Proverbs 11When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
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ASV
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
KJV
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
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This verse in Proverbs 11
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
BonaventureDisputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection, Question 1 · Written in the 13th century.
He is truly wise who truthfully recognizes his own and others' nothingness and the sublimity of the first principle. But no one arrives at full knowledge of God except through true and right knowledge of oneself; nor does he rightly know himself who does not …
This site's exposition
A false balance is abomination to the Lord
on Proverbs 11:1-3
The false balance and the just weight are not metaphor but the marketplace itself, where a merchant kept two sets of stones, light ones for selling and heavy ones for buying, and the Lord names the practice an abomination while calling the honest weight his delight. Pride and shame travel together as cause and effect, and the lowly carry wisdom instead. Integrity is pictured as a guide that leads a man home, while perverseness works the opposite errand and destroys the very people who trust it.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church3 voices
A commentator
BonaventureCollationes de Septem Donis, Collation 9 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
Gregory of Nazianzus was a most pure youth. It happened that he was studying at Athens. One night, while he slept, there came to him a most beautiful lady, having two handmaidens as if they were virgins; he began to repel her. And the lady …
"But where there is humility," etc. "You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them to little children" (Matt. XI; Luke X), that is, to the humble.
"Where there is pride," etc. Because they behave arrogantly and insultingly, through contempt or ignorance of discipline, they insult their neighbors; or certainly because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled (Luke XIV, XVIII).
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
When pride cometh, then cometh shame,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
When pride cometh - The proud man thinks much more of himself than any other can do; and, expecting to be treated according to his own supposed worth, which treatment he seldom meets with, he is repeatedly mortified, ashamed, confounded, and rendered indignant. With the lowly - צנועים tsenuim, ταπεινων, the humble, the modest, as opposed to the proud, referred to in the first clause.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
A rabbinic paraphrase of the second clause is: “Lowly souls become full of wisdom as the low place becomes full of water.”
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּֽא־ | ba'- | it comes | H935 → | 2568 times |
| זָ֭דוֹן | zadon | pride | H2087 → | 11 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֣א | vaiyavo' | and it came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| קָל֑וֹן | kalon | shame | H7036 → | 17 times |
| וְֽאֶת־ | veet | and [is] with | H854 → | 929 times |
| צְנוּעִ֥ים | tzenuim | modest [people] | H6800 → | |
| חָכְמָֽה׃ | chokhmah | wisdom | H2451 → | 153 times |
בָּֽא־it comes
ba'-H935 →2568 times
זָ֭דוֹןpride
zadonH2087 →11 times
וַיָּבֹ֣אand it came
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
קָל֑וֹןshame
kalonH7036 →17 times
וְֽאֶת־and [is] with
veetH854 →929 times
צְנוּעִ֥יםmodest [people]
tzenuimH6800 →
חָכְמָֽה׃wisdom
chokhmahH2451 →153 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
it leads to
- Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Matthew 23:12
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Peter 5:5
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 66:2
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles…
- James 4:6–10
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Luke 14:11
Through
Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
it leads to
- James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Luke 16:15
So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
- Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
- James 4:10
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Bonaventure, Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection, Question 1; Bonaventure, Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 9; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).