Bible Verses About Pride

Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say.

Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

Men do therefore fear him: He regardeth not any that are wise of heart.

Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. [Selah

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah.

The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not requireit. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity.

He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten; He hideth his face, he will never see it.

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

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

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

Oh love Jehovah, all ye his saints: Jehovah preserveth the faithful, And plentifully rewardeth him that dealeth proudly.

Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, Andtheir dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.

For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.