Proverbs 13:10

10 Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

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Proverbs 13:10 in Other Translations

KJV

10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

ESV

10 By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

NLT

10 Pride leads to conflict; those who take advice are wise.

MSG

10 Arrogant know-it-alls stir up discord, but wise men and women listen to each other's counsel.

CSB

10 Arrogance leads to nothing but strife, but wisdom is gained by those who take advice.

Proverbs 13:10 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 13:10

Only by pride cometh contention
Though it comes by other things, yet by this chiefly, and there are no contentions without it: or "truly", "verily", "certainly ^F4, by pride" Unless the words may be better rendered, "an empty man through pride will give contention" ^F5, or make it; such as are empty of knowledge and wisdom; and such are generally the most proud, and are very apt to raise contentions, and foment divisions: contentions in families, in neighbourhoods, in towns, cities, and countries, and in churches, are generally owing to pride; what contentions and confusions has the pride of the pope of Rome brought into kingdoms and states, into councils, and into the church of God! but with the well advised [is] wisdom:
such who are humble and modest will seek counsel of God; will consult the sacred oracles, and ask advice of those who are superior to them in knowledge and understanding; and so will neither raise contentions themselves, nor join with those that make them, but do all they can to lay them; these show that true wisdom is with them.