Quotes About Humility

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

and say to corruption, ëYou are my father,í and to the worm, ëMy mother,í or ëMy sister,í

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

When men are brought low and you say, ëLift them up!í then He will save the lowly.

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”