Proverbs 16:18
What meaning of the proverbs 16:18 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 16:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
What does Proverbs 16:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
Verse Proverbs 16:18. _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....
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart;...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
PRIDE GOETH, &C. Illustrations: Asahel (2 Samuel 2:18); Ben-hadad (1 Kings 20:3; 1 Kings 20:11; 1 Kings 20:32); Babylon (Isaiah 47:10; Isaiah 47:11); Azariah (Jeremiah 43:2); Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:...
TEXT Proverbs 16:12-22 12. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is established by righteousness. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that...
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION. In it is "When pride cometh, then cometh shame." AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL. The "ha...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION. — In contrast to the blessing promised to humility in Proverbs 15:33....
לִ פְנֵי ־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּאֹ֑ון וְ לִ פְנֵ֥י כִ֝שָּׁלֹ֗ון גֹּ֣בַהּ רֽוּחַ׃...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
_Fall. Our first parents had given way to pride, before they sinned publicly. (St. Augustine, City of God xiv. 13.)_...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
PRIDE [GOETH] BEFORE DESTRUCTION,.... As it did in the angels that sinned, who, through pride, fell into condemnation, not being able to bear the thought that the human nature, in the person of the So...
Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Ver. 18. _Pride goeth before destruction._] A bulging wall is near a downfall. Swelling is a dangerous symptom in the body; so i...
_How much better is it_ It is inexpressibly and inconceivably better _to get wisdom than gold_ Because it brings a man more certain, and complete, and lasting comfort and advantage. _The way of the up...
V. 18. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION, for self-exaltation blinds a person against dangers and against the growing resentment of other people and thus hastens his fall, AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A...
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION; it is commonly a forerunner and cause of men's ruin, because it highly provokes both God and men....
Proverbs 16:18 Pride H1347 before H6440 destruction H7667 haughty H1363 spirit H7307 before H6440 fall H3783 Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 17:19, Proverbs 18:12, Proverbs 29:23; Esther 3:5,...
WISDOM IS TO BE SOUGHT AND PRIDE MUST BE AVOIDED BY THE ONE WHO WOULD WALK IN THE RIGHT WAY WITH TRUST IN YHWH (PROVERBS 16:16). In this subsection the envelopes of wisdom (Proverbs 16:16) - pride (Pr...
Proverbs 16:18 There is a tendency in knowledge to produce humility: so that the more a man knows the more likely he is to think little of himself. I. Pride proves deficiency of knowledge first, in...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall._ SHAME AND CONTEMPT THE END OF PRIDE I. Show what pride and haughtiness mean. Pride is thinking of ourselves more highly than we...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv. Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 16:20, Proverbs 16:25). ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:18. “The Hebrews observe that this verse stands exactly in the centre of the whole book” (Fausset). PROVERBS 16:19. LOWLY, or the “_afflicted_” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Prov...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 Timothy 3:6; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 5:22; Daniel 5:24; Esther 3:5; Esther 6:6; Esther 7:10; Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 37:10;...