2 Kings 14:9-11
9And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, a“A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. 10You have indeed bstruck down Edom, cand your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”11But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah dfaced one another in battle at eBeth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
Job 31:24-25
24 f“If I have made gold my gtrustor called hfine gold my confidence,
25if I have irejoiced because my wealth was abundant
or because jmy hand had found much,
Psalms 49:6
6those who ktrust in their wealthand boast of the abundance of their riches?
Psalms 52:1
The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To the choirmaster. A Maskil ▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term of David, when mDoeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
Jeremiah 9:23-24
23Thus says the Lord: n“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 24but olet him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. pFor in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”Ezekiel 28:2
2 q“Son of man, say to rthe prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:s“Because your heart is proud,
and tyou have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet uyou are but a man, and no god,
vthough you make your heart like the heart of a god—
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