Pro 16:18 | NETfull | STEP | Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18

18 Pride ^{▼▼ 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.”} goes ^{▼▼ Heb “[is] before destruction.”} before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall. ^{▼▼ 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).}