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Gill's Exposition
When pride cometh, then cometh shame,.... The one follows the other, or rather keep pace together; as soon as one comes, the other comes; as in the case of the angels that sinned, Adam and Eve, Haman,…
Barnes' Notes
A rabbinic paraphrase of the second clause is: “Lowly souls become full of wisdom as the low place becomes full of water.”
Matthew Henry
Observe, 1. How he that exalts himself is here abased, and contempt put upon him. When pride comes then comes shame. Pride is a sin which men have reason to be themselves ashamed of; it is a shame to…
Cambridge Bible
wisdom We should rather have expected honour, as a parallel to shamein the first clause. But wisdom is the root of honour. Comp. Pro 15:33; Pro 18:12.
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