A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
⛓ Read Proverbs 29 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'One's pride will bring him low, but the lowly in spirit will obtain honor' is the proverb James restates as 'humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.'
High confidence"A man's pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will obtain honor" is the proverbial substrate of v12's exaltation/humiliation reversal.
High confidenceThe reversal at the heart of the saying — 'whoever humbles himself... is the greatest' — restates the wisdom maxim that pride brings a person low while the humble in spirit obtain honor. The exaltation-through-humility logic is a sustained sapiential pattern.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'A man's pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will obtain honor' supplies the exact exalt/humble inversion of v.11. Recurrence of this antithesis across Proverbs strengthens its availability as the wisdom matrix for Jesus' aphorism.
Medium confidence