Quick answer
Two destinations, two approach roads: haughtiness runs toward destruction, humility toward honor. Check the road and you can read the destination early.
Read both lines
The verse reports from further up both highways. Before destruction the heart grows haughty; the collapse announces itself in the posture first. Before honor walks humility, the low road that keeps ending at high places. The first line compresses 16:18; the second completes it with the reversal this book loves: the way up is down. Scripture keeps portraits on both wings, Nebuchadnezzar haughty on the roof of Babylon the hour before the grass, Joseph faithful in a dungeon before his exaltation. The heart's elevation and the life's trajectory run inverse, and only one of the two is under your management.
Related: Proverbs 16:18 · Proverbs 15:33 · Luke 14:11
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If this verse has been used to put weight on you that it was never carrying, ask about it directly.