Proverbs 18:12

Wycliffe Bible

The herte of man is enhaunsid, bifor that it be brokun; and it is maad meke, bifore that it be glorified.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Before his downfall a person’s heart is proud,but humility comes before honor.

Hebrew Names Version
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.

King James Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

English Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

New American Standard Bible
Before destruction the heart of a person is haughty, But humility goes before honor.

New Century Version
Proud people will be ruined, but the humble will be honored.

Amplified Bible
Before disaster the heart of a man is haughty and filled with self-importance, But humility comes before honor.

World English Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Before destruction the heart of a man is hautie, and before glory goeth lowlines.

Legacy Standard Bible
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,But humility goes before glory.

Berean Standard Bible
Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Contemporary English Version
Pride leads to destruction; humility leads to honor.

Complete Jewish Bible
Before being ruined, a person's heart is proud; before being honored, a person must be humble.

Darby Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour [goeth] humility.

Easy-to-Read Version
A proud person will soon be ruined, but a humble person will be honored.

George Lamsa Translation
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty; and before honor is humility.

Good News Translation
No one is respected unless he is humble; arrogant people are on the way to ruin.

Lexham English Bible
In the presence of destruction, the heart of a man will be haughty, but in the presence of honor, humble.

Literal Translation
Before shattering, a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After pryde cometh destruccio, and honor after lowlynes.

American Standard Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility.

Bible in Basic English
Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honour goeth humility.

King James Version (1611)
Before destruction the heart of man is haughtie, and before honour is humilitie.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before destruction the heart of a man is proude: and before honour goeth humilitie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Before ruin a man’s heart is exalted, and before honour it is humble.

English Revised Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour goeth humility.

Update Bible Version
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor [goes] humility.

Webster's Bible Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.

New English Translation
Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

New King James Version
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility.

New Living Translation
Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.

New Life Bible
The heart of a man is proud before he is destroyed, but having no pride goes before honor.

New Revised Standard
Before destruction one's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Before grievous injury, a man's heart is haughty, and, before honour, is humility.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

Revised Standard Version
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Young's Literal Translation
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.

THE MESSAGE
Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor.

Contextual Overview

¹² The herte of man is enhaunsid, bifor that it be brokun; and it is maad meke, bifore that it be glorified.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

destruction: Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 29:23, Ezekiel 16:49, Ezekiel 16:50, Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:9, Daniel 5:23, Daniel 5:24, Acts 12:21-23

and: Proverbs 15:33, Job 42:6-17, Isaiah 6:5-13, Daniel 9:20, Daniel 9:23, Luke 14:11, 1 Peter 5:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:3 - humble Numbers 16:27 - and stood 1 Samuel 17:44 - Come to me 1 Samuel 18:18 - Who am I 1 Samuel 25:41 - thine 1 Kings 1:5 - exalted 1 Kings 20:18 - General Esther 6:6 - To whom Proverbs 17:19 - he that Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Isaiah 10:14 - And my Jeremiah 48:29 - his loftiness Jeremiah 50:32 - the most proud Ezekiel 29:9 - because Ezekiel 31:10 - and his Hosea 13:1 - Ephraim Obadiah 1:3 - pride Habakkuk 2:9 - set Luke 9:48 - he that Luke 18:14 - every 1 Timothy 3:6 - lest James 4:6 - giveth grace

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham felde doun on his face, and leiyede in his hert, and seide, Gessist thou, whethir a sone schal be borun to a man of an hundrid yeer, and Sara of nynti yeer schal bere child?

Genesis 18:6
Abraham hastide in to the tabernacle, to Sare, and seide to hir, Hast thou, meddle thou thre half buschelis of clene flour; and make thou looues bakun vndur aischis.

Genesis 18:7
Forsothe he ran to the droue of beestis, and took therof a calf moost tendre and best, and yaf to a child, which hastide, and sethede the calfe;

Genesis 18:11
Forsothe bothe weren olde, and of greet age, and wommans termes ceessiden to be maad to Sare.

Genesis 18:12
And she leiyede, seiynge pryueli, after that Y wexede eld, and my lord is eld, schal Y yyue diligence to lust?

Genesis 18:13
Forsothe the Lord seide to Abraham, Whi leiyeth Sare, thi wijf, seiynge, whether Y an eld womman schal bere child verili?

Genesis 18:18
sithen he schal be in to a greet folk and moost strong, and alle naciouns of erthe schulen be blessid in hym?

Genesis 18:20
And so the Lord seide, The cry of men of Sodom and of men of Gomorre is multiplied, and her synne is agreggid greetli; Y schal come doun,

Psalms 126:2
Thanne oure mouth was fillid with ioye; and oure tunge with ful out ioiyng. Thanne thei schulen seie among hethene men; The Lord magnefiede to do with hem.

Ephesians 5:33
Netheles ye alle, ech man loue his wijf as hym silf; and the wijf drede hir hosebonde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,.... Lifted up with his riches. Rich men are apt to be highminded, and therefore are to be charged and cautioned against it; they are apt to look above their poor neighbours, and with contempt upon them; and very often this haughtiness of theirs is a presage of their ruin and destruction: and those haughty airs are put on from the pride of their hearts, when a "breach" is near, as the word u signifies, or when they are ready to break; however, their haughty spirits are, sooner or later, humbled by one distressing providence or another; see Proverbs 16:18;

and before honour [is] humility; Proverbs 16:18- :.

u לפני שבר "ante confractionem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before - In the sense of priority of time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:12. Before destruction — See on Proverbs 11:2; Proverbs 16:18.