Proverbs 18:12

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹¹ The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination. ¹² Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour is humility. ¹³ Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

Lifted Up

Proverbs 11:2

Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of Jehovah is the instruction of wisdom, And before honour is humility!

Proverbs 16:18

Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

Proverbs 29:23

The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I am, The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou art man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God,

Ezekiel 28:9

Dost thou really say, 'I am God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou art man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.

Job 42:6-17

Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

Isaiah 6:5-13

And I say, 'Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

Ezekiel 16:49-50

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

Daniel 5:23-24

and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

Daniel 9:20

And while I am speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and causing my supplication to fall before Jehovah my God, for the holy mount of my God,

Daniel 9:23

at the commencement of thy supplications hath the word come forth, and I have come to declare it, for thou art greatly desired, and understand thou concerning the matter, and consider concerning the appearance.

Luke 14:11

because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

Acts 12:21-23

and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,

1 Peter 5:5

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;