Verses with the word proud in the Apocrypha (25 verses):
2 Esdras 11:44
The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, and, behold, they are ended, and his abominations are fulfilled.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:6
For in the old time also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world governed by thy hand escaped in a weak vessel, and left to all ages a seed of generation.
Sirach 3:28
In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy; for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him.
Sirach 10:9
Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.
Sirach 10:14
The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and set up the meek in their stead.
Sirach 10:15
The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and planted the lowly in their place.
Sirach 11:30
Like as a partridge taken [and kept] in a cage, so is the heart of the proud; and like as a spy, watcheth he for thy fall:
Sirach 13:1
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.
Sirach 13:20
As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.
Sirach 21:4
To terrify and do wrong will waste riches: thus the house of proud men shall be made desolate.
Sirach 23:4
O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.
Sirach 23:8
The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
Sirach 25:2
Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, and an old adulterer that doateth.
Sirach 27:15
The strife of the proud is bloodshedding, and their revilings are grievous to the ear.
Sirach 27:28
Mockery and reproach are from the proud; but vengeance, as a lion, shall lie in wait for them.
Sirach 31:26
The furnace proveth the edge by dipping: so doth wine the hearts of the proud by drunkeness.
Sirach 32:12
There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not by proud speech.
Sirach 32:18
A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.
Sirach 35:18
For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be patient toward them, till he have smitten in sunder the loins of the unmerciful, and repayed vengeance to the heathen; till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptre of the unrighteous;
Sirach 51:10
I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble, and in the time of the proud, when there was no help.
Additions to Esther 13:12
Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither in contempt nor pride, nor for any desire of glory, that I did not bow down to proud Aman.
Additions to Esther 16:2
Many, the more often they are honoured with the great bounty of their gracious princes, the more proud they are waxen,
1 Maccabees 2:47
They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand.
2 Maccabees 9:8
And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.
2 Maccabees 15:32
And shewed them vile Nicanor's head, and the hand of that blasphemer, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy temple of the Almighty.
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