Proverbs 16:19

New English Translation

It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.

Cross References

Psalm 138:6

Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

Proverbs 1:13

We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1:14

Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”

Proverbs 25:7

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

Proverbs 29:23

A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

Proverbs 3:34

Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.

Isaiah 10:6

I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 53:12

So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Isaiah 9:3

You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

Judges 5:30

‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder – a girl or two for each man to rape! Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!’