Sirach 10:11-18
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11 For when a man is dead, he shall inherit creeping things, beasts, and worms.
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12 The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and his heart is turned away from his Maker.
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13 For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
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14 The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and set up the meek in their stead.
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15 The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and planted the lowly in their place.
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16 The Lord overthrew countries of the heathen, and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
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17 He took some of them away, and destroyed them, and hath made their memorial to cease from the earth.
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18 Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.