1509 verses about Pride

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;’

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

For I don’t know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’

Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—