Bible Verses About Ambition

That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.

Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die.

This their way vttereth their foolishnes: yet their posteritie delite in their talke. Selah.

Like sheepe they lie in graue: death deuoureth them, and the righteous shall haue domination ouer them in the morning: for their beautie shall consume, when they shall goe from their house to graue.

But God shall deliuer my soule from the power of the graue: for he will receiue me. Selah.

Be not thou afrayd when one is made rich, and when the glory of his house is increased.

For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shall his pompe descende after him.

For while he liued, he reioyced himselfe: and men will prayse thee, when thou makest much of thy selfe.

He shall enter into the generation of his fathers, and they shall not liue for euer.

Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? and cutte downe to the grounde, which didest cast lottes vpon the nations?

Yet thou saidest in thine heart, I will ascende into heauen, and exalt my throne aboue beside the starres of God: I will sitte also vpon the mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North.

I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most high.

But thou shalt bee brought downe to the graue, to the sides of the pit.