Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
⛓ Read Proverbs 3 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.
'Do not be wise in your own conceits' (12:16) reproduces 'Be not wise in your own eyes' (LXX), the same proverb that grounded 12:3; here it caps the call to humble association with the lowly.
High confidence'Don't boast over the branches... Don't be conceited, but fear' (v.18, 20) echoes 'Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil.' The pairing of not-being-wise-in-self with fear is distinctive; recurs at v.25 ('wise in your own conceits').
Medium confidence'Not to think of himself more highly than he ought' draws on the wisdom warning 'Be not wise in your own eyes'; the same maxim returns explicitly at 12:16, framing the pericope's call to sober self-estimation.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Don't be wise in your own eyes' resonates with Paul's warning against being 'puffed up' beyond 'the things which are written.' The wisdom tradition's caution against self-inflated wisdom coheres with Paul's deflation of Corinthian boasting, though no verbal quotation is present.
Low confidencePaul's call to do nothing through conceit and to count others better than oneself coheres with the wisdom warning 'Be not wise in your own eyes,' a recurrent sapiential theme of self-abasement. Volume is faint (no shared vocabulary in WEB) and the thought is a commonplace, so this is a contested low-confidence echo of the humility tradition rather than a pointed allusion.
Low confidence