Bible verse

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2 · BSB

Proverbs 11:2 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 11.

1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

2 When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

4 Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

5 The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

6 The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.

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Proverbs 11:2 in other translations

KJV

[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom.

ASV

When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.

ERV

When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

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