Our soul is exceedingly filled
With the scorn of those who are at ease,
With the contempt of the proud.

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We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.

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18 Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before [a]a fall.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:18 stumbling

18 Pride(A) goes before destruction,
    a haughty spirit(B) before a fall.(C)

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27 But (A)God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;

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27 But God chose(A) the foolish(B) things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

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28 and the [a]base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:28 insignificant or lowly

28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not(A)—to nullify the things that are,

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