Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 29:23
23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will gain honor.
Proverbs 29:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- New International Version (NIV)Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
- New King James Version (NKJV)A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.
Context of Proverbs 29:23
21If someone pampers his slave from childhood in the end he will be ungrateful. 22An angry man stirs up dissention, and a hotheaded one commits many transgressions. A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will gain honor. 24An accomplice of a thief is his own enemy. He hears the oath but says nothing. 25Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but one who trusts in Adonai will be kept safe.
Read all of Proverbs 29Proverbs 29:23 word by word
גַּאֲוַ֣ת אָ֭דָם תַּשְׁפִּילֶ֑נּוּ וּשְׁפַל־ר֝֗וּחַ יִתְמֹ֥ךְ כָּבֽוֹד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 29:23
- Proverbs 18:12Before ruin a person’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
- 2 Chronicles 32:25But Hezekiah did not respond according to the favor done to him. His heart became haughty, so wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 33:10Adonai spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
- Job 22:29When people are brought low, and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the downcast.
- Job 40:12look at everyone who is proud and humble him; tread down the wicked where they stand.
- Isaiah 2:11The man of haughty eyes is humbled, the lofty ones brought low, for Adonai alone will be exalted in that day.
- Daniel 4:30Immediately the word about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from men, ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 5:20But when his heart became haughty and his spirit hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
- Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the other, went down to his home declared righteous. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Acts 12:23Immediately, an angel of the Lord struck him down—because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and died.
- James 4:6But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- 1 Peter 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Proverbs 15:33The fear of Adonai is the discipline of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
- Deuteronomy 8:2You are to remember all the way that Adonai your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness—in order to humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His mitzvot or not.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the High and Exalted One who inhabits eternity, whose Name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.
Commentaries on Proverbs 29:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23A man's pride shall bring him low - A proud man is universally despised, and such are often exposed to great mortifications.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23Honour shall uphold the humble in spirit - Better: The lowly in spirit shall lay hold on honor.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23Verse 23 Only those who humble themselves shall be exalted and established.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23See Proverbs 6:17–18; 11:2; 13:10; 15:33; 16:18–19; 18:12; 19:20; 22:4.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. (Compare Pr 16:18; 18:12). honour ... spirit--or, "such shall lay hold on honor" (Pr 11:16).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 29
- 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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