Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

New American Standard Bible

A man’s pride will bring him low,
But a humble spirit will obtain honor.

King James Version

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Holman Bible

A person’s pride will humble him,
but a humble spirit will gain honor.

International Standard Version

A person's pride will bring about his downfall, but the humble in spirit will gain honor.

A Conservative Version

A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

American Standard Version

A man's pride shall bring him low; But he that is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

Amplified


A man’s pride and sense of self-importance will bring him down,
But he who has a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Bible in Basic English

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

Darby Translation

A man's pride bringeth him low; but the humble in spirit shall obtain honour.

Julia Smith Translation

A man's pride shall bring him low: and honor shall uphold him humble of spirit

King James 2000

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The pride of a person will bring him humiliation, and the lowly of spirit will obtain honor.

Modern King James verseion

A man's pride shall bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

After pride cometh a fall; but a lowly spirit bringeth great worship.

NET Bible

A person's pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

New Heart English Bible

A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

The Emphasized Bible

The loftiness of a man, layeth him low, - but, one of a lowly spirit, shall attain unto honour.

Webster

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

World English Bible

A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A man's
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

גּאוה 
Ga`avah 
Usage: 19

שׁפל 
Shaphel 
Usage: 31

but honour
כּבד כּבוד 
Kabowd 
Usage: 200

תּמך 
Tamak 
Usage: 21

the humble
שׁפל 
Shaphal 
Usage: 18

Images Proverbs 29:23

Prayers for Proverbs 29:23

Context Readings

All About Life

22 An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression. 23 The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour. 24 Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.



Cross References

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of Jehovah is the instruction of wisdom, And before honour is humility!

Matthew 23:12

and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Proverbs 11:2

Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour is humility.

Isaiah 66:2

And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.

Luke 14:11

because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

Luke 18:14

I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

James 4:6-10

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),

2 Chronicles 32:25-26

and Hezekiah hath not returned according to the deed done unto him, for his heart hath been lofty, and there is wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem;

2 Chronicles 33:10-12

And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,

2 Chronicles 33:23-24

and hath not been humbled before Jehovah, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself hath multiplied guilt.

Job 22:29

For they have made low, And thou sayest, 'Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth.

Job 40:12

See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

Proverbs 16:18

Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

Isaiah 2:11-12

The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

Daniel 4:30-37

the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?

Daniel 5:20-21

and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him,

Matthew 5:3

Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

Matthew 18:4

whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.

Acts 12:23

and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

1 Peter 5:5

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

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