Proverbs 16:19

New International Version

Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.

Cross References

Psalm 138:6

Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’

Proverbs 1:13

we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;

Proverbs 1:14

cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—

Proverbs 25:7

it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes

Proverbs 29:23

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.

Proverbs 3:34

He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.

Isaiah 10:6

I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 9:3

You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the 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 spoils: a woman or two for each man, colorful garments as plunder for Sisera, colorful garments embroidered, highly embroidered garments for my neck— all this as plunder?’