Proverbs 16:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

Pride goeth before destruction, and an high minde before the fall.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִפְנֵי־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּא֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י כִ֝שָּׁל֗וֹן גֹּ֣בַהּ רֽוּחַ׃

Transliteration

Before-šeḇer gāʾôn and-before-kiššālôn gōḇah rûaḥ

Grammar Details

• *lipnê*: preposition - before
• *šeḇer*: noun, masculine, singular - breaking/destruction/ruin
• *gāʾôn*: noun, masculine, singular - pride/arrogance/majesty
• *wᵉ*: conjunction - and
• *kiššālôn*: noun, masculine, singular - stumbling/fall
• *gōḇah*: noun, masculine, singular construct - height/exaltation of
• *rûaḥ*: noun, feminine, singular - spirit/wind/breath

Word Meanings

• *šeḇer*: breaking/destruction/downfall/crash
• *gāʾôn*: pride/arrogance/haughtiness
• *gōḇah rûaḥ*: height of spirit/haughty spirit/pride

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:2 : 2 When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowly is wisdome.
• Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of a man is hautie, and before glory goeth lowlines.
• Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The hie looke of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lorde of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe.
• Obad 1:3-4 : 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceiued thee: thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rockes, whose habitatio is hie, that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me downe to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle, and make thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, sayth the Lord.
• Prov 29:23 : 23 The pride of a man shall bring him lowe: but the humble in spirit shall enioy glory.
• Isa 37:10-13 : 10 Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah King of Iudah, saying, Let not thy God deceiue thee, in whom thou trustest, saying, Ierusalem shal not be giuen into the hand of the King of Asshur. 11 Beholde, thou hast heard what the Kings of Asshur haue done to all lands in destroying them, and shalt thou be deliuered? 12 Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them, which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were at Telassar? 13 Where is the King of Hamath, and the King of Arpad, and the King of the citie of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah?
• Prov 17:19 : 19 He loueth transgression, that loueth strife: and he that exalteth his gate, seeketh destruction.
• Dan 4:30-37 : 30 (4:27) And the King spake and sayde, Is not this great Babel, that I haue built for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie? 31 (4:28) While the worde was in the Kings mouth, a voyce came downe from heauen, saying, O King Nebuchad-nezzar, to thee be it spoken, Thy kingdome is departed from thee, 32 (4:29) And they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse, as the oxen, and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, vntill thou knowest, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it vnto whomsoeuer he will. 33 (4:30) The very same houre was this thing fulfilled vpon Nebuchad-nezzar, and hee was driuen from men, and did eate grasse as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of heauen, till his heares were growen as egles feathers, & his nailes like birds clawes. 34 (4:31) And at the ende of these dayes I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me, and I gaue thankes vnto the most High, and I praysed and honoured him that liueth for euer, whose power is an euerlasting power, and his kingdome is from generation to generation. 35 (4:32) And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say vnto him, What doest thou? 36 (4:33) At the same time was mine vnderstanding restored vnto me, and I returned to the honour of my kingdome: my glory and my beautie was restored vnto me, and my counsellours and my princes sought vnto me, and I was established in my kingdome, and my glory was augmented toward me. 37 (4:34) Now therefore I Nebuchad-nezzar prayse and extoll & magnifie the King of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, & his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pride, he is able to abase.
• Dan 5:22 : 22 And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things,
• Rom 11:20 : 20 Well: through vnbeliefe they are broken off, and thou standest by faith: bee not hie minded, but feare.
• 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
• Esth 3:5 : 5 And when Haman sawe that Mordecai bowed not the knee vnto him, nor did reuerence vnto him, then Haman was full of wrath.
• Esth 6:6 : 6 And when Haman came in, the King saide vnto him, What shalbe done vnto ye man, whom the King will honour? Then Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the King do honour more then to me?
• Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.
• Isa 37:38 : 38 And as he was in the temple worshipping of Nisroch his god, Adramelech and Sharezer his sonnes slewe him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat: and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his steade.