Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 18:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
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Role in This Section
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 18:9–12
Read Proverbs 18:12 with 18:9–12. Read alone, “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster”; by 18:12, it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility”. Together the unit concentrates on work, diligence, provision, and creaturely limits, friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries, reverent accountability before the LORD within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”
Why It Needs Context
Proverbs 18:12 contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility”. Because this line supplies setup, support, continuation, or result, “Work, diligence, provision, and creaturely limits — He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him…” provides the meaning it cannot responsibly carry alone.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 18:9–12 — Work, diligence, provision, and creaturely limits — He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him…Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 18:9–12, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 18:9-18:12
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