Proverbs 16:18

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms ( Proverbs 16:10-15 ) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Pride goeth, &c. Illustrations: Asahel ( 2 Samuel 2:18-23 ); Ben-hadad ( 1 Kings 20:3 ; 1 Kings 20:11 ; 1 Kings 20:32 ); Babylon ( Isaiah 47:...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Pride goeth before destruction - Here pride is personified: it walks along, an...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Pride goeth before destruction. In Proverbs 11:2 it is "When pride com...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-9. God's control of human life.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Pride goeth before destruction. — In contrast to the blessing promised to humility in Proverbs 15:33 .
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 balanc...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mer...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 depend...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 s...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Pride [goeth] before destruction ,.... As it did in the angels that sinned, who, through pride, fell into condemnation, not being able to bear the t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Ver. 18. Pride goeth before destruction. ] A bulging wall is near a downfal...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, an...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Note, 1. Pride will have a fall. Those that are of a haug...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Pride goeth before destruction; it is commonly a forerunner and cause of men's ruin, because it highly provokes both God and men.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 16:16-21 ). In this subs...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 16:18 . “The Hebrews observe that this verse stands exactly in the centre of the whole book” (Fausset). Proverbs 16...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 b...
The Biblical Illustrator

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Shame and contempt the end of pride I. Show what pride and haughtiness mea...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 16:1-20 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. Proverbs 16:1 The Authorized...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 18. Pride goeth before destruction, for self-exaltation blinds a person against dangers and against the growing resentment of other people and t...

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 16:18

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 16:18