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Psalm 36:11

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

9For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.
10Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
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Notice

The foot and hand make pride feel threatening and close, while the plea to God acknowledges how vulnerable a person can be to another’s power.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.Both passages describe pride through harm directed at another person: hunting down the weak or threatening to drive someone away.
Psalm 140:4LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.Both prayers ask God for protection from the hands of the wicked, using bodily images to describe danger.
Psalm 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.Psalm 36 asks God for protection from wicked people; Psalm 31 describes shelter in God’s presence from human plotting.
Psalm 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.Psalm 36 asks that the wicked not drive the speaker away; Psalm 16 expresses confidence in remaining unmoved because God is near.
Isaiah 51:23I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the …Both passages picture oppression through feet and bodily force, with Isaiah describing the humiliation of being walked over.
Job 40:11–12Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.Pride is opposed in both passages: the psalm seeks protection from it, while Job speaks of bringing the proud low.
Romans 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Psalm 36 asks protection from wicked people; Romans names oppression and persecution while questioning separation from Christ’s love.
Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able …Psalm 36 seeks God’s protection against pride; Daniel praises God as able to bring down those who walk in pride.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future. anxiety or panic.

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Encouragement

The plea for protection follows a prayer for God’s continued loving kindness. Fear of being driven away has a place in speech addressed to God.

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