Proverbs 16:18 New English Translation

¹⁸Pride^[a] goes^[b] before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.^[c]

Proverbs 16:18 sn The two lines of this proverb are synonymous parallelism, and so there are parasynonyms. “Pride” is paired with “haughty spirit” (“spirit” being a genitive of specification); and “destruction” is matched with “a tottering, falling.”
Proverbs 16:18 tn Heb “[is] before destruction.”
Proverbs 16:18 sn Many proverbs have been written in a similar way to warn against the inevitable disintegration and downfall of pride. W. McKane records an Arabic proverb: “The nose is in the heavens, the seat is in the mire” (Proverbs [OTL], 490).

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