Proverbs 29:23 (BSB)

A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:23: This agrees with what Christ said more than once, 1. That those who exalt themselves shall be abased. Those that think to gain respect by lifting up themselves above their rank, by looking high, talking big, appearing fine, and applauding themselves, will on the contrary expose themselves to contempt, lose their reputation, and provoke God by humbling providences to bring them down and lay them low. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:23: A man's pride shall bring him low,.... As the pride of Adam, in affecting to be as gods, knowing good and evil; he lost the image of God; was brought into a state of darkness and ignorance, into debt and to a dunghill, to beggary and rags; filled with loathsome diseases, and left in thraldom and bondage to sin and Satan; and so all his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:23: (Compare Pro 16:18; Pro 18:12). honour . . . spirit--or, "such shall lay hold on honor" (Pro 11:16).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:23: Pro 29:23 Pro 29:23 passes from anger to haughtiness: A man’s pride will bring him low; But the lowly attaineth to honour. Thus we translate תּתמך כּבוד (Lat. honorem obtinet) in accord with Pro 11:16, and שׁפל־רוּח with Pro 16:19, where, however, שׁפל is not adj. as here, but inf.