Bible Verses About Pride

“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

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

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

Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

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 the LORD.

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.”

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

May the LORD 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?”

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

Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

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

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.