For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
Proverbs 16:19 - English Standard Version 2016 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud. Common English Bible Better to be humble with the needy than to divide plunder with the proud. Catholic Public Domain Version It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the arrogant. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud. |
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
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.’
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
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.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?— A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’