New English Translation
Proverbs 18:3
3When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.
Proverbs 18:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
- New International Version (NIV)When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.
- English Standard Version (ESV)When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; And with dishonor comes reproach.
Context of Proverbs 18:3
1One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment. 2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind. When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach. 4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. 5It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.
Read all of Proverbs 18Proverbs 18:3 word by word
בְּֽבוֹא־רָ֭שָׁע בָּ֣א גַם־בּ֑וּז וְֽעִם־קָל֥וֹן חֶרְפָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 18:3
- Proverbs 11:2When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
- Proverbs 22:10Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.
- Proverbs 29:16When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will see their downfall.
- 1 Samuel 20:30Saul became angry with Jonathan and said to him, “You stupid traitor! Don’t I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother’s nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse?
- Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!
- Psalms 69:9Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.
- Psalms 123:3Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
- Matthew 27:39Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads
- 1 Peter 4:4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
Commentaries on Proverbs 18:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3When the wicked cometh, etc. - would it not be better to read this verse thus? "When the wicked cometh contempt cometh; and with ignominy cometh reproach." A wicked man is despised even by the wicked. He who falls under ignominy falls under reproach.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3With ignominy - Better, “together with baseness comes reproach.” The outer shame follows close upon the inner.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3Verse 3 As soon as sin entered, shame followed.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. So surely are sin and punishment connected (Pr 16:4). wicked, for "wickedness," answers to ignominy, or the state of such; and contempt, the feeling of others to them; and to reproach, a manifestation of contempt.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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