'Arrogant' in the Bible
For I was envious of the arrogantAs I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,And a band of violent men have sought my life,And they have not set You before them.
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.
You rebuke the arrogant, the cursed,Who wander from Your commandments.
The arrogant utterly deride me,Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
The arrogant have forged a lie against me;With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.
May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie;But I shall meditate on Your precepts.
The arrogant have dug pits for me,Men who are not in accord with Your law.
Be surety for Your servant for good;Do not let the arrogant oppress me.
A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil,But a fool is arrogant and careless.
An arrogant man stirs up strife,But he who trusts in the Lord will prosper.
So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;
“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.
“Moab will be destroyed from being a peopleBecause he has become arrogant toward the Lord.
“Summon many against Babylon,All those who bend the bow:Encamp against her on every side,Let there be no escape.Repay her according to her work;According to all that she has done, so do to her;For she has become arrogant against the Lord,Against the Holy One of Israel.
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,”Declares the Lord God of hosts,“For your day has come,The time when I will punish you.
“The arrogant one will stumble and fallWith no one to raise him up;And I will set fire to his citiesAnd it will devour all his environs.”
“I have heard the taunting of MoabAnd the revilings of the sons of Ammon,With which they have taunted My peopleAnd become arrogant against their territory.
This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts.
“Your words have been arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and escape.’”
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”