Proverbs 16:19

New American Bible - revised edition

It is better to be humble with the poor than to share plunder with the proud.

Cross References

Psalm 138:6

The Lord is on high, but cares for the lowly and knows the proud from afar.

Psalm 34:18

The righteous cry out, the Lord hears and he rescues them from all their afflictions.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

Proverbs 1:13

All kinds of precious wealth shall we gain, we shall fill our houses with booty;

Proverbs 1:14

Cast in your lot with us, we shall all have one purse!”

Proverbs 25:7

For it is better to be told, “Come up closer!” than to be humbled before the prince.

Proverbs 29:23

Haughtiness brings humiliation, but the humble of spirit acquire honor.

Proverbs 3:34

Those who scoff, he scoffs at, but the lowly he favors.

Isaiah 10:6

Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will give him his portion among the many, and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty, Because he surrendered himself to death, was counted among the transgressors, Bore the sins of many, and interceded for the transgressors.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One, the One who dwells forever, whose name is holy: I dwell in a high and holy place, but also with the contrite and lowly of spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, to revive the heart of the crushed.

Isaiah 9:3

For the yoke that burdened them, the pole on their shoulder, The rod of their taskmaster, you have smashed, as on the day of Midian.

Matthew 5:3

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

Judges 5:30

“They must be dividing the spoil they took: a slave woman or two for each man, Spoil of dyed cloth for Sisera, spoil of ornate dyed cloth, a pair of ornate dyed cloths for my neck in the spoil.”