Proverbs 29:23

“A man’s pride shall bring him low, etc.] As the pride of Adam, in affecting to be as gods, knowing good and evil; he lost the image of God; was brought into a state of darkness and ignorance, into debt and to a dunghill, to beggary and rags; filled with loathsome diseases, and left in thraldom and bondage to sin and Satan; and so all his posterity were brought into the same low estate. This might be exemplified in particular persons, in Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod, and others; and, as will be in that monster of pride, the man of sin and antichrist; who will be humbled and brought low in the midst of his pride and boasting, (<661807>Revelation 18:7,8); but honour shall uphold the humble in…”

“(Compare Pro 16:18; Pro 18:12). honour . . . spirit--or, "such shall lay hold on honor" (Pro 11:16).”

“Honour shall uphold the humble in spirit - Better: The lowly in spirit shall lay hold on honor. return to 'Top of Page'”

“29:23 See 6:17-18; 11:2; 13:10; 15:33; 16:18-19; 18:12; 19:20; 22:4.”

“man's: Pro 18:12; Ch2 32:25, Ch2 32:26, Ch2 33:10-12, Ch2 33:23, Ch2 33:24; Job 22:29, Job 40:12; Isa 2:11, Isa 2:12; Dan 4:30-37, Dan 5:20, Dan 5:21; Luk 14:11, Luk 18:14; Act 12:23; Jam 4:6-10; Pe1 5:5 honour: Pro 15:33; Deu 8:2, Deu 8:3, Deu 8:16; Isa 57:15, Isa 66:2; Mat 5:3, Mat 18:4, Mat 23:12 Proverbs 29:24”

“Pro 29:23 passes from anger to haughtiness: A man's pride will bring him low; But the lowly attaineth to honour. Thus we translate תּתמך כּבוד (Lat. honorem obtinet) in accord with Pro 11:16, and שׁפל־רוּח with Pro 16:19, where, however, שׁפל is not adj. as here, but inf. The haughty man obscures the honour which he has by this, that he boasts immeasurably of it, and aspires yet more after it; the lowly man, on the other hand, obtains honour without his seeking it, honour before God and before men, which would be of no worth were it not connected with the honour before God. The lxx: τοὺς δὲ ταπεινόφρονας ἐπείδει δόξῃ κύριους. This κύριους is indeed not contrary to the sense, but it…”