²⁴ The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; He works in the arrogance of pride.

²² "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?

¹ Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

²⁹ We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing.

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

⁹ Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

²⁹ Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;

⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai didn't bow down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.

⁶ But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.