Proverbs 16:18

The Message

First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.

Cross References

Esther 3:5

When Haman saw for himself that Mordecai didn’t bow down and kneel before him, he was outraged. Meanwhile, having learned that Mordecai was a Jew, Haman hated to waste his fury on just one Jew; he looked for a way to eliminate not just Mordecai but all Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

Esther 6:6

When Haman entered, the king said, “What would be appropriate for the man the king especially wants to honor?” Haman thought to himself, “He must be talking about honoring me—who else?” So he answered the king, “For the man the king delights to honor, do this: Bring a royal robe that the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crown on its head. Then give the robe and the horse to one of the king’s most noble princes. Have him robe the man whom the king especially wants to honor; have the prince lead him on horseback through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king especially wants to honor!’”

Esther 7:10

So Haman was hanged on the very gallows that he had built for Mordecai. And the king’s hot anger cooled. * * *

Proverbs 11:2

The stuck-up fall flat on their faces, but down-to-earth people stand firm.

Proverbs 17:19

The person who courts sin marries trouble; build a wall, invite a burglar.

Proverbs 18:12

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride lands you flat on your face; humility prepares you for honors.

Daniel 5:22

“You are his son and have known all this, yet you’re as arrogant as he ever was. Look at you, setting yourself up in competition against the Master of heaven! You had the sacred chalices from his Temple brought into your drunken party so that you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines, could drink from them. You used the sacred chalices to toast your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone—blind, deaf, and imbecile gods. But you treat with contempt the living God who holds your entire life from birth to death in his hand.

Daniel 5:24

“God sent the hand that wrote on the wall, and this is what is written: mene, teqel, and peres. This is what the words mean: “Mene: God has numbered the days of your rule and they don’t add up.

Matthew 26:74

Then he got really nervous and swore. “I don’t know the man!” Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and cried and cried and cried.

Judges 11:28

But the king of the Ammonites refused to listen to a word that Jephthah had sent him.