Proverbs 16:18
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Webster's Revision
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
World English Bible
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Definitions for Proverbs 16:18
Clarke's Proverbs 16:18 Bible Commentary
Pride goeth before destruction - Here pride is personified: it walks along, and has destruction in its train.
And a haughty spirit before a fall - Another personification. A haughty spirit marches on, and ruin comes after.
In this verse we find the following Masoretic note in most Hebrew Bibles. חצי הספר chatsi hassepher: "the middle of the book." This verse is the middle verse; and the first clause makes the middle of the words of the book of Proverbs.