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Verse Proverbs 16:18. _PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION_] Here _pride_
is personified: it walks along, and has destruction in its train.
_AND A HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL._] Another personification....
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CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD
The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of
Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the
preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
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PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs
16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the
picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
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PRIDE GOETH, &C. Illustrations: Asahel (2 Samuel 2:18); Ben-hadad (1
Kings 20:3; 1 Kings 20:11; 1 Kings 20:32); Babylon ...
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TEXT Proverbs 16:12-22
12.
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness;
For the throne is established by righteousness.
13.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings;
And they love him that...
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION. In it is "When pride cometh, then
cometh shame."
AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL. The "hau...
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1-9. God's control of human life....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 16
The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s,
the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil
action...
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To be proud is especially evil.
The proud man thinks that he is better than anyone else. He thinks
that he deserves every luxury. God does not approve of this. God wants
people to be humble, so that...
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PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION. — In contrast to the blessing
promised to humility in Proverbs 15:33....
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לִ פְנֵי ־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּאֹ֑ון וְ לִ
פְנֵ֥י
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CHAPTER 29
AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT
"He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso
confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13
"Happy is the man that feareth...
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CHAPTER 17
A JUST BALANCE
"A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag
are His work."- Proverbs 16:11
"A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is
H...
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Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that
man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is
dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
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_Fall. Our first parents had given way to pride, before they sinned
publicly. (St. Augustine, City of God xiv. 13.)_...
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Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without
right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his
steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth
trans...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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PRIDE [GOETH] BEFORE DESTRUCTION,.... As it did in the angels that
sinned, who, through pride, fell into condemnation, not being able to
bear the thought that the human nature, in the person of the So...
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Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Ver. 18. _Pride goeth before destruction._] A bulging wall is near a
downfall. Swelling is a dangerous symptom in the body; so i...
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_How much better is it_ It is inexpressibly and inconceivably better
_to get wisdom than gold_ Because it brings a man more certain, and
complete, and lasting comfort and advantage. _The way of the up...
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V. 18. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION, for self-exaltation blinds a
person against dangers and against the growing resentment of other
people and thus hastens his fall, AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A...
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Proverbs 16:18 Pride H1347 before H6440 destruction H7667 haughty
H1363 spirit H7307 before H6440 fall H3783...
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WISDOM IS TO BE SOUGHT AND PRIDE MUST BE AVOIDED BY THE ONE WHO WOULD
WALK IN THE RIGHT WAY WITH TRUST IN YHWH (PROVERBS 16:16).
In this subsection the envelopes of wisdom (Proverbs 16:16) - pride
(Pr...
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Proverbs 16:18
There is a tendency in knowledge to produce humility: so that the more
a man knows the more likely he is to think little of himself.
I. Pride proves deficiency of knowledge first, in r...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the
upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in
it....
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Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field
must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of
man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
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_Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall._
SHAME AND CONTEMPT THE END OF PRIDE
I. Show what pride and haughtiness mean. Pride is thinking of
ourselves more highly than we...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch.
Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of
the heart (vv....
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:16 The “better” sayings of vv.
Proverbs 16:16 and Proverbs 16:19 value
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 16:18. “The Hebrews observe that this verse stands exactly
in the centre of the whole book” (Fausset).
PROVERBS 16:19. LOWLY, or the “_afflicted_”
MAIN HOMILETICS OF...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 16:1
These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name
Jehovah.
PROVERBS 16:1
The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any
contrast or a...
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Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin
our study this evening.
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is
from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1).
Go...
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1 Timothy 3:6; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 5:22; Daniel 5:24; Esther 3:5;...