Quotes About Pride

to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.

That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the kingís gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,

Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”

So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”

He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

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,

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

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

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

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

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

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

“Do you think this is just? You say, ëI am more righteous than God.í

There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

and I declared: ëYou may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stopí?

Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.