THEOSISProverbs 18:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The wicked man, when he is come into the depths of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.
בְּֽבוֹא־רָ֭שָׁע בָּ֣א גַם־בּ֑וּז וְֽעִם־קָל֥וֹן חֶרְפָּֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 22:10Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
- Prov 11:2Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.
- 1 Pet 4:14If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you.
- Prov 29:16When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall.
- Ps 69 (68):9
- Neh 4:4Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.
- Ps 69 (68):20
- 1 Sam 20:30Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother?