Jeremiah 9:23
This is what Jehovah says: Do not let wise people brag about their wisdom. Do not let strong people brag about their strength. Do not let rich people brag about their riches.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong. Bread does not go to the wise, or riches to men of understanding. Men of skill do not always receive favor, but time and unexpected circumstance happens to them all.
1 Kings 20:10-11
Benhadad sent Ahab the following message: May the gods strike me dead if there will be enough dust left from Samaria to give a handful to each soldier who follows me.
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence,
Isaiah 10:8
He boasts: 'Every one of my commanders is a king!
Deuteronomy 8:17
When you succeed do not brag: 'I am rich. I earned it all myself.'
1 Samuel 17:4-10
A fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines. His name was Goliath of Gath. He was over nine feet tall.
1 Samuel 17:42
The Philistine got a good look at David and he despised him. David was only a young man with a healthy complexion and good looks.
Job 5:12-14
He keeps shrewd (crafty) (cunning) people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.
Psalm 33:16-17
A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
Psalm 49:6-13
They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.
Psalm 49:16-18
Do not be afraid when someone becomes rich, when the greatness of his house increases.
Psalm 52:6-7
The righteous also sees, and fears, and laughs at him. They say:
Psalm 62:10
Do not count on extortion to make you rich. Do not hope to gain anything through robbery. When riches increase, do not depend on them.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath. Righteousness delivers from death.
Ecclesiastes 2:13-16
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways just as the light is better than the dark.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.
Isaiah 5:21
You are doomed! You think you are wise. You think you are so very clever.
Isaiah 10:12-13
It will happen when Jehovah has performed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will say: I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty appearance.
Isaiah 36:8-9
Now, make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses if you can put riders on them.
Ezekiel 7:19
They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage (like an abhorrent thing), because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.
Ezekiel 28:2-9
Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In your arrogance you say, 'I am a god (strong deity). I sit on God's throne in the sea.' But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes 2:4)
Ezekiel 29:9
The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am Jehovah. Because you said: 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it.'
Daniel 3:15
Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, zither, pipes, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, good! But if you do not worship it you will be thrown into the midst of a blazing furnace that same hour. What god will be able to rescue you from my hand?
Daniel 4:30-31
The king spoke: Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, extol and honor the King of heaven. All his works are truth, and his ways justice. He is able to abase (humble) (subdue) those who walk in pride.
Daniel 5:18-23
O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
Amos 2:14-16
Flight will perish from the swift! The strong will not increase his strength. The mighty will not save himself.
Zephaniah 1:18
Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!
Mark 10:24
The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus repeated it again: Children, it is hard to enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 12:19-20
I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'
Acts 12:22-23
The people shouted: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
Romans 1:22
Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
1 Corinthians 1:19-21
It is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. (Isaiah 29:14)
1 Corinthians 1:27-29
Instead God chose the foolish things of the world to confuse (shame) the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to confuse (shame) the things that are mighty.
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some by longing for it have been led away from the faith. They have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
James 3:14-16
If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.