1087 verses about Humility

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.

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.”

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.

“Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.