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Proverbs 25:6

Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

The pushing, boastful temper is, in the long run, suicidal. It is wiser as well as nobler to take the lower place at first in humility, than to take it afterward with shame. Compare Luke 14:8-10, which is one of the few instances in which our Lord‘s teaching was fashioned, as to its outward form, upon that of this book.