Proverbs 11:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

New Living Translation
Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

English Standard Version
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Berean Study Bible
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

New American Standard Bible
When pride comes, then comes dishonor; But with the humble there is wisdom.

NASB 1995
When pride comes, then comes dishonor, But with the humble is wisdom.

NASB 1977
When pride comes, then comes dishonor, But with the humble is wisdom.

Amplified Bible
When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame, But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.

Christian Standard Bible
When arrogance comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

Contemporary English Version
Too much pride can put you to shame. It's wiser to be humble.

Good News Translation
People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Arrogance comes, then comes shame, but wisdom remains with humble people.

International Standard Version
When pride appears, disgrace accompanies it, but humility is present with wisdom.

NET Bible
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

New King James Version
When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.

King James 2000 Bible
When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

New Heart English Bible
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

World English Bible
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

American King James Version
When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

American Standard Version
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.

A Faithful Version
When pride comes, then shame comes; but with the lowly is wisdom.

Darby Bible Translation
[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.

English Revised Version
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Webster's Bible Translation
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowly is wisdome.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Where pryde is, there is shame also and confusion: but wheras is lowlinesse, there is wisdome.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Where pryde is, there is shame also and confucion: but where as is lowlynes, there is wysdome.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Pride has come, and shame comes, "" And wisdom [is] with the lowly.

Young's Literal Translation
Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.

Smith's Literal Translation
Pride coming, and dishonor will come: and wisdom with the humble.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Wherever arrogance may be, there too is insult. But wherever humility is, there too is wisdom.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Where corruption enters, disgrace enters, and wisdom is for the humble.

Lamsa Bible
Where baseness comes, then comes shame; but with the meek is wisdom.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Wherever pride enters, there will be also disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom.
















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