Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour [is] humility.
Ver. 12. Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty.] Creature confidence and high mindedness are the Dives's richman's diseases, and go therefore yoked together, as here; so in 1 Timothy 6:17 - "Charge the rich that they be not high minded, nor trust to uncertain riches." Magna cognatio ut rei sic nominis divitiis, et vitiis; Wealth and wickedness are of near alliance, and are not far from destruction, or ‘breaking to shivers,' as the word signifies. So bladder like is the soul, that, filled with earthly vanities, though but wind, it grows great and swells in pride; but pricked with the least pin of divine justice, it shrinks and shrivels to nothing. Proverbs 16:18 ; Proverbs 15:33 ; Pro 12:2 See Trapp on " Pro 16:18 " See Trapp on " Pro 15:33 " See Trapp on " Pro 12:2 "