Arrogance

Arrogance, in the UPDV's wisdom and prophetic vocabulary, is proud speech that presumes against Yahweh's knowledge and judgment. The same disposition is named in Hannah's song, in Wisdom's self-description, and in Isaiah's oracle of universal reckoning. It is closely connected with pride and is treated as something Yahweh actively opposes and brings to an end.

A Mouth That Yahweh Weighs

Hannah ends her song with a warning aimed at the proud speech of her opponents: "Don't talk anymore so exceedingly proudly; Don't let arrogance come out of your⁺ mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed" (1Sa 2:3). The arrogance she rebukes is verbal — boasting that ignores the One who weighs deeds.

What Wisdom Hates

In Proverbs, Wisdom names arrogance among the things she rejects: "The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, I hate" (Pr 8:13). The verse pairs arrogance with pride, with evil conduct, and with perverse speech, locating it inside a wider cluster of attitudes incompatible with the fear of Yahweh.

Brought Low in Judgment

The prophetic answer to arrogance is its forced cessation. In the Day-of-Yahweh oracle against Babylon, Yahweh declares: "And I will punish the world for [its] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible" (Isa 13:11). What the Proverbs verse calls hated, the Isaiah verse calls ended — arrogance is not merely disapproved of but brought to a stop in the day of reckoning.