1087 verses about Humility

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

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

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Better is he who is little know, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;

Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,” than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

for an unloved woman when she is married; and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise”; but it was far from me.

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.”

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.