Proverbs 18:3 When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.

English Standard Version
When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.

New American Standard Bible
When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, And with dishonor comes scorn.

King James Bible
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When a wicked man comes, contempt also does, and along with dishonor, disgrace.

International Standard Version
When an evil person comes, contempt also comes, along with dishonor and disgrace.

American Standard Version
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, And with ignominy cometh reproach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked man when he is come into the depth of sine, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.

Darby Bible Translation
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Young's Literal Translation
With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame -- reproach.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

18:1 If we would get knowledge and grace, we must try all methods of improving ourselves. 2. Those make nothing to purpose, of learning or religion, whose only design is to have something to make a show with. 3. As soon as sin entered, shame followed.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. So surely are sin and punishment connected (Pr 16:4).

wicked, for "wickedness," answers to

ignominy, or the state of such; and

contempt, the feeling of others to them; and to

reproach, a manifestation of contempt.