Proverbs 16:5

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

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WEBBE

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; they shall certainly not be unpunished.

BSB

Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.

KJV

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

ASV

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah: [Though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

BBE

Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

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The early church

Because nothing so alienates men from the lovingkindness of God, and gives them over to the fire of the pit, as the tyranny of pride. For when this is present with us, our whole life becomes impure, even though we fulfill temperance, chastity, fasting, prayer, almsgiving, anything. For, "Every one," saith the wise man, "that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord." Let us then restrain this swelling of the soul, let us cut up by the roots this lump of pride, if at least we would wish to be clean, and to escape the punishment appointed for the devil. For that the proud must fall under the same punishment as that (wicked) one, hear Paul declare; "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the judgment, and the snare of the devil." What is "the judgment"? He means, into the same "condemnation," the same punishment.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on John

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