Bible Verses About Pride

When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

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?

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

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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?

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

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?

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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

Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’