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The answer
Proverbs 16:18 reads: "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." The popular version fuses the two halves into one short line.
Why it’s interesting
The proverb is built as a matched pair — pride/destruction, haughty spirit/fall — and the folk version keeps the ending and drops the middle. The meaning survives; the poetry doesn't.
Scholarly consensus
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