Bible Verses About Pride

Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings.

And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.

Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.

Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' are all his devices.

Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries--he puffeth at them.

He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.

O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.

Their heart is : Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

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

I have said to the boastful, `Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, `Raise not up a horn.'

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness-- is elevation.

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.