Proverbs 11:2 {3}
Good News Translation
People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.

New Revised Standard Version
When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but wisdom is with the humble.

Contemporary English Version
Too much pride can put you to shame. It's wiser to be humble.

New American Bible
When pride comes, disgrace comes; but with the humble is wisdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.

pride

Proverbs 3:34,35 The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace. . . .

Proverbs 16:18,19 Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall. . . .

Daniel 4:30-32 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

Luke 14:8-11 When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: . . .

Luke 18:14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

but

Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

1 Corinthians 8:1,2 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth. . . .

Context
Dishonest Scales
1Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom. 2The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.3Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.…
Cross References
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

Proverbs 29:23
Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

Proverbs 11:1
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