Quotes About Humility

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

If I have rejoiced in my enemyís ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.

So do not claim, ëWe have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.í

I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.

For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,