Proverbs Chapter 3 verse 35 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 3:35

The wise shall inherit glory; But shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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BBE Proverbs 3:35

The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.
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DARBY Proverbs 3:35

The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of the foolish.
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KJV Proverbs 3:35

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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WBT Proverbs 3:35


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WEB Proverbs 3:35

The wise will inherit glory, But shame will be the promotion of fools.
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YLT Proverbs 3:35

Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 35. - The wise shall inherit glory. Proverbs 11:2 indicates that "the wise" here are to be identified with "the lowly" of the preceding verse. Inherit; succeed to it as a matter of course by hereditary right as sons. Heirship implies sonship. Glory (kavod); or, honour; not merely earthly distinction and splendour, the glory of man, but the "glory of God." But shame shall be the promotion of fools; or, as margin, shame exalteth the fools. The rendering of the original, vuk'silim merim kalon, depends upon the meaning to be given to merim, the hiph. participle of rum, hiph. "to lift up, exalt;" and whether the plural, k'silim, in a distributive sense, as in ver. 18, or kalon, is the subject. Various interpretations have been given of the passage. (1) The Vulgate renders, stultorum exaltatio ignominia; i.e. as in the Authorized Version, "shame exalts fools." They "glory in their shame" (Philippians 2:19); or shame renders them conspicuous as warning examples (Ewald); or, as Dathe explains it, "Stulti infamia sunt famosi," "Fools become famous by infamy;" or as Rabbi Levi, "Shame exalts them as into the air, and makes them vanish away." (2) The LXX. renders, Αἱ ἀσεβεῖς ὕψωσαν ἀτιμίαν, i.e. "Fools exalt shame, prize what others despise" (Plumptre). (3) Umbreit, Bertheau, Zockler, render, "Shame sweeps fools away," i.e. lifts them up in order to sweep away and destroy them (cf. Isaiah 57:14). . . .

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) Shame shall be the promotion 'of fools.--That is, dull, stupid people, who despise God's threatenings (Proverbs 1:32), are distinguished from others by what is a disgrace to them (Philippians 3:19), and so are noticeable only as examples to be shunned by others. (See Note on Proverbs 14:29.)