Humility

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 2 Samuel 7:18 OT

  Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

• 2 Samuel 7:19 OT

  This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!

• 1 Kings 3:7 OT

  Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

• 1 Chronicles 17:17 OT

  This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

• 1 Chronicles 29:14 OT

  But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

• 2 Chronicles 1:10 OT

  Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

• 2 Chronicles 2:6 OT

  But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

• Ezra 9:13 OT

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• Job 7:17 OT

  What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

• Job 7:18 OT

  that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

• Job 9:14 OT

  How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

• Job 9:15 OT

  Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

• Job 10:15 OT

  If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

• Job 33:6 OT

  Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

• Job 40:4 OT

  “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

• Job 40:5 OT

  I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

• Job 42:4-6 OT

  You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

• Psalms 8:3 OT

  When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

• Psalms 8:4 OT

  what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

• Psalms 73:22 OT

  I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

• Psalms 141:5 OT

  Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

• Psalms 144:3 OT

  Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

• Psalms 144:4 OT

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• Proverbs 30:2 OT

  “Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.