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Proverbs 18:3
3Doing wrong leads to disgrace, and scandalous behavior brings contempt.
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
1Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense. 2Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions. Doing wrong leads to disgrace, and scandalous behavior brings contempt. 4Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook. 5It is not right to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the innocent.
Read all of Proverbs 18Proverbs 18:3 word by word
בְּֽבוֹא־רָ֭שָׁע בָּ֣א גַם־בּ֑וּז וְֽעִם־קָל֥וֹן חֶרְפָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 18:3
- Proverbs 11:2Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
- Proverbs 22:10Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too. Quarrels and insults will disappear.
- Proverbs 29:16When the wicked are in authority, sin flourishes, but the godly will live to see their downfall.
- 1 Samuel 20:30Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan. “You stupid son of a whore!” he swore at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want him to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother?
- Nehemiah 4:4Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
- Psalms 69:9Passion for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
- Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy, for we have had our fill of contempt.
- Matthew 27:39The people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery.
- 1 Peter 4:4Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander 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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