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• Antiochus, having extracted eighteen hundred talents from the Temple, hurried back to Antioch; in his pride he would have undertaken to make the dry land navigable and the sea passable on foot, so high his arrogance soared. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)

• Our brothers, having endured brief pain, for the sake of ever-flowing life have died for the covenant of God, while you, by God's judgement, will have to pay the just penalty for your arrogance. (2 Maccabees 7, 36)

• Even so, he in no way diminished his arrogance; still bursting with pride, breathing fire in his wrath against the Jews, he was in the act of ordering an even keener pace when the chariot gave a sudden lurch and out he fell and, in this serious fall, was dragged along, every joint of his body wrenched out of place. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)

• (Fear of Yahweh means hatred of evil.) I hate pride and arrogance, wicked behaviour and a lying mouth. (Proverbs 8, 13)

• What good has arrogance been to us? What has been the purpose of our riches and boastfulness? (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 8)

• Sovereignty passes from nation to nation because of injustice, arrogance and money. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 8)

• If you have opened your mouth against your friend, do not worry; there is hope for reconciliation; but insult, arrogance, betrayal of secrets, and the stab in the back -- in these cases any friend is lost. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 22)

• In his days Sennacherib invaded and sent Rabshakeh; he lifted his hand against Zion, and boasted loudly in his arrogance. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 18)

• Human pride will lower its eyes, human arrogance will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted, on that day. (Isaiah 2, 11)

• Human pride will be humbled, human arrogance brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted, on that day. (Isaiah 2, 17)

• you will recite this satire on the king of Babylon and say: 'How did the tyrant end? How did his arrogance end? (Isaiah 14, 4)

• We have heard about Moab's pride, about how very proud it is, about its arrogance, its pride, its rage, its bravado, which will come to nothing! (Isaiah 16, 6)