Proverbs 16:18 (BSB)

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:18: Note, 1. Pride will have a fall. Those that are of a haughty spirit, that think of themselves above what is meet, and look with contempt upon others, that with their pride affront God and disquiet others, will be brought down, either by repentance or by ruin. It is the honour of God to humble the proud, Job 40:11, Job 40:12.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:18: Pride goeth before destruction,.... As it did in the angels that sinned, who, through pride, fell into condemnation, not being able to bear the thought that the human nature, in the person of the Son of God, should be advanced above theirs; and as it did in our first parents, who, not content with their present state and circumstances, and ambitious of being as gods...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:18: (Compare Pro 15:33). Haughtiness and pride imply self-confidence which produces carelessness, and hence a fall--literally, "sliding."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:18: Pro 16:18 18 Pride goeth before destruction, And haughtiness cometh before a fall. The contrast is לפני כבוד ענוה, Pro 15:33, according to which the “haughtiness comes before a fall” in Pro 18:22 is expanded into the antithetic distich. שׁבר means the fracture of the limbs, destruction of the person. A Latin proverb says, “Magna cadunt, inflata crepant, tumefacta premuntur.” Here being dashed in pieces and overthrown correspond.