Proverbs 16:19 (BSB)

It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:19: This is a paradox which the children of this world cannot understand and will not subscribe to, that it is better to be poor and humble than to be rich and proud. 1. Those that divide the spoil are commonly proud; they value themselves and despise others, and their mind rises with their condition; those therefore that are rich in this world have need to...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:19: Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly,.... The followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, whose spirits are humbled under a sense of sin; have mean thoughts of themselves and their own righteousness, and submit to the righteousness of the Son of God, and wholly trust in him for salvation; and ascribe all they have and are to the free...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:19: divide the spoil--that is, conquer. Avoid the society of the proud (Jam 4:6).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:19: Pro 16:19 19 Better in humility to dwell among sufferers, Than to divide spoil among the proud. The form שׁפל is here not adj. as Pro 29:23 (from שׁפל, like חסר, Pro 6:32, from חסר), but inf. (like Ecc 12:14, and חסר, defectio, 10:21).