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Proverbs 18:12

Proverbs 18:12

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

Note, 1. Pride is the presage of ruin, and ruin will at last be the

punishment of pride; for before destruction men are commonly so

infatuated by the just judgment of God that they are more haughty than

ever, that their ruin may be the sorer and the more surprising. Of, if

that do not always hold, yet after the heart has been lifted up with

pride, a fall comes, ch. xvi. 18. 2. Humility is the presage of honour

and prepares men for it, and honour shall at length be the reward of

humility, as he had said before, ch. xv. 33. That has need to be often

said which men are so loth to believe.

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