Proverbs 16:19 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁹ It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the meek and poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Better to be humble with the needy than to divide plunder with the proud.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the arrogant.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.

Proverbs 16:19 Cross References

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he perceives from far away.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’

Proverbs 1:13

We shall find all kinds of costly things; we shall fill our houses with booty.

Proverbs 1:14

Throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—

Proverbs 25:7

for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen

Proverbs 29:23

A person's pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 9:3

You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Judges 5:30

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?— A girl or two for every man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera, spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’