'Proud' in the Bible
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Cast abroad the ragings of thine anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him:
Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place:
He beholdeth all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,
Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.
Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies.
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.
Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, who wander from thy commandments.
The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.
The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with my whole heart.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.
The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to thy law.
Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the proud oppress me.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.
Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.
Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent.
Better is it to be of a humble spirit with the meek, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proud, arrogant, scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath.
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a proud spirit.
For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;
And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.
We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, he is very proud, of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain.
then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there;
We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, he is very proud; his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Behold, I am against thee, proud one, saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I visit thee:
and the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; yea, I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.
And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.
And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.