The Meek shall inherit the Earth

Guess why the meek inherit the earth?

​Because after God destroys the haughty and the arrogant, the meek are the only ones left standing.
Adam, Noah, Job, the Israelites, Peter, Paul, Jesus--the second Adam...
and I, who crawled out of the crater of my arrogant life. Humbled and barely alive.  But barely alive in the sense a new born baby is barely alive:  not because I had almost died, but because I had barely lived. And like every newborn thing, at the sound of my first cry, an inheritor of the whole earth.

Zephaniah 3:11-12