Quotes about Hubris

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”

you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—