Proverbs 16:18-19

18 Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.^[a]

19 Better to be lowly of spirit with the humble^[b] than to divide plunder with the proud.^[c]

Proverbs 16:18-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS 6

This chapter gives an account of the building of the temple, for which preparations were before made and begins with the time of its building, 1Ki 6:1; gives the dimensions of it and the porch before it, 1Ki 6:2,3; observes the windows in it and chambers about it, 1Ki 6:4-10; and while it was building, Solomon had a word from the Lord relative to it, 1Ki 6:11-14; and then the account goes on concerning the walls of the house, and the flooring of it, 1Ki 6:15-18; and the oracle in it, and the cherubim in that, 1Ki 6:19-30; and the doors into it, and the carved work of them, 1Ki 6:31-36; and the chapter is concluded with observing the time when it was begun and finished 1Ki 6:37,38.

Footnotes

• [a] Pr 16:5; 18:12; 29:23; Dn 4:37
• [b] Alt Hb tradition reads afflicted
• [c] Pr 15:16-17; 16:8; Ps 37:16