Proverbs 11:2

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

(When) pride cometh, then cometh shame - a play upon like sounds in Hebrew ( zaadown (H2087), kalon (G2570)). There is no "when" in the Hebrew implying the immediate attendance of shame on pride (Proverbs 15:33; Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 18:12). While the word of pride, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" was yet in King Nebuchadnezzar's mouth, there fell the voice from, heaven - "The kingdom is departed from thee" (Daniel 4:30-27).

But with the lowly is wisdom. Each of the two clauses is to be supplied from the other. "With the lowly is wisdom" - issuing in honour, the opposite of "shame." "When" folly, which is the opposite of "wisdom," and issues in "pride, cometh, then cometh shame," its inseparable follower. Pride makes one to raise himself up against God, and against one's neighbour (Proverbs 13:10; Proverbs 21:24; Deuteronomy 17:12; Deuteronomy 18:22).