2 Chronicles 32:25-26

32:25 But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem. ¹  32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. ² 

2 Chronicles 33:12

33:12 In his pain ³  Manasseh ⁴  asked the Lord his God for mercy ⁵  and truly ⁶  humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 33:19

33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself. ⁸ 

Job 33:17

33:17 to turn a person from his sin, ⁹ 

and to cover a person’s pride. ¹⁰ 

Job 42:5-6

42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

but now my eye has seen you. ¹¹ 

42:6 Therefore I despise myself, ¹² 

and I repent in dust and ashes!

Isaiah 2:17

2:17 Proud men will be humiliated,

arrogant men will be brought low; ¹³ 

the Lord alone will be exalted ¹⁴ 

in that day.

Luke 18:14

18:14 I tell you that this man went down to his home justified ¹⁵  rather than the Pharisee. ¹⁶  For everyone who exalts ¹⁷  himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

James 4:6

4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.” ¹⁸ 

James 4:10

4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

James 4:1

Passions and Pride

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where ¹⁹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²⁰  from your passions that battle inside you? ²¹ 

James 5:5-6

5:5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ²²  5:6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ²³ 

[32:25]  ¹ tn Heb “but not according to the benefit [given] to him did Hezekiah repay, for his heart was high, and there was anger against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.”

[32:26]  ² tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”

[33:12]  ³ tn Or “distress.”

[33:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”

[33:12]  ⁶ tn Or “greatly.”

[33:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers.”

[33:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”

[33:17]  ⁹ tc The MT simply has מַעֲשֶׂה (ma’aseh, “deed”). The LXX has “from his iniquity” which would have been מֵעַוְלָה (me’avlah). The two letters may have dropped out by haplography. The MT is workable, but would have to mean “[evil] deeds.”

[33:17]  ¹⁰ tc Here too the sense of the MT is difficult to recover. Some translations took it to mean that God hides pride from man. Many commentators changed יְכַסֶּה (yÿkhasseh, “covers”) to יְכַסֵּחַ (yÿkhasseakh, “he cuts away”), or יְכַלֶּה (yÿkhalleh, “he puts an end to”). The various emendations are not all that convincing.

[42:5]  ¹¹ sn This statement does not imply there was a vision. He is simply saying that this experience of God was real and personal. In the past his knowledge of God was what he had heard – hearsay. This was real.

[42:6]  ¹² tn Or “despise what I said.” There is no object on the verb; Job could be despising himself or the things he said (see L. J. Kuyper, “Repentance of Job,” VT 9 [1959]: 91-94).

[2:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the pride of men will be brought down, and the arrogance of men will be brought low.” As in v. 11, the repetition of the verbs שָׁפַל (shafal) and שָׁחָח (shakhakh) from v. 9 draws attention to the appropriate nature of the judgment. Those proud men who “bow low” before idols will be forced to “bow low” before God when he judges their sin.

[2:17]  ¹⁴ tn Or “elevated”; NCV “praised”; CEV “honored.”

[18:14]  ¹⁵ sn The prayer that was heard and honored was the one given with humility; in a surprising reversal it was the tax collector who went down to his home justified.

[18:14]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the other”; the referent (the Pharisee, v. 10) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:14]  ¹⁷ sn Everyone who exalts himself. See Luke 14:11. Jesus often called for humility and condemned those who sought honor.

[4:6]  ¹⁸ sn A quotation from Prov 3:34.

[4:1]  ¹⁹ tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.

[4:1]  ²⁰ tn Grk “from here.”

[4:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”

[5:5]  ²² sn James’ point seems to be that instead of seeking deliverance from condemnation, they have defied God’s law (fattened your hearts) and made themselves more likely objects of his judgment (in a day of slaughter).

[5:6]  ²³ tn Literally a series of verbs without connectives, “you have condemned, you have murdered…he does not resist.”