Haughty eyes and a proud heart – the agricultural product ¹  of the wicked is sin.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law ¹  and boast of your relationship to God ² 

Where, then, is boasting? ¹  It is excluded! By what principle? ²  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! ¹  For everything belongs to you,

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. ¹ 

But when ¹  the sovereign master ²  finishes judging ³  Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I ⁴  will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays. ⁵ 

In Tahpanhes the day will be dark ¹  when I break the yoke of Egypt there. Her confident pride will cease within her; a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

“See how Babylon ¹  has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations! ² 

Let each one examine ¹  his own work. Then he can take pride ²  in himself and not compare himself with ³  someone else.

But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. ¹  He disobeyed ²  the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, ¹  or eighty, if one is especially strong. ²  But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. ³  Yes, ⁴  they pass quickly ⁵  and we fly away. ⁶ 

In the same way, you who are younger, ¹  be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. ² 

Therefore, cleanse ¹  your heart and stop being so stubborn! ² 

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms ¹  the powerful. ² 

that the elation of the wicked is brief, ¹  the joy of the godless ²  lasts but a moment. ³ 

Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence ¹  is broken. ² 

They are calloused; ¹  they speak arrogantly. ² 

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed ¹  the prosperity ²  of the wicked.

They mock ¹  and say evil things; ²  they proudly threaten violence. ³