Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
BSB
ASV
Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
KJV
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride goeth before destruction - Here pride is personified: it walks along, and has destruction in its train. And a haughty spirit before a fall - Another personification. A haughty spirit marches on, and ruin comes after. In this verse we find the following Masoretic note in most Hebrew Bibles. חצי הספר chatsi hassepher: “the middle of the book.” This verse is the middle verse; and the first clause makes the middle of the words of the book of Proverbs.
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topics/pridePride goeth before destruction
MannaFest topical index (legacy import; verified against ASV text 2026-07-21; founder-approved batch)
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
leads to
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
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…
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Through
Proverbs 11:2When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
leads to
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
