hoogmoed komt voor de val
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Ultimately from the Bible, Proverbs 16:18. Attested since at least the 17th century.[1] The publishing of the 1637 Statenvertaling likely proliferated usage throughout the Low Countries, wherein a variant of the modern proverb can be found.[2] (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
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- ^ Hoogmoed komt voor de val in Taalloket, Onze Taal, 2019 (in Dutch).
- ^ Johannes Bogerman, Willem Baudartius, Gerson Bucerus, transl. (1637 September 17), “Spreuken 16 [Proverbs 16]”, in Statenvertaling (in Dutch), commissioned by the Synod of Dort in 1618, Leiden: Machteld Aelbrechtsdochter, line 18: “Hovaardigheid is vóór de verbreking, en hoogheid des geestes vóór den val. ― Haughtiness comes before misery, and hubris of the mind before the fall.”