10 ⁶ Do not be angry with your neighbour for any injury,
and do not attempt anything by acts of insolence.
10 ⁷ Arrogance is hateful before the Lord and before men,
and injustice is outrageous to both.
10 ⁸ Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.
10 ⁹ How can he who is dust and ashes be proud?
for even in life his bowels decay.
10 ¹⁰ A long illness baffles the physician;
the king of today will die tomorrow.
10 ¹¹ For when a man is dead, he will inherit creeping things, and wild beasts, and worms.
10 ¹² The beginning of man's pride is to depart from the Lord;
his heart has forsaken his Maker.
10 ¹³ For the beginning of pride is sin,
and the man who clings to it pours out abominations.
Therefore the Lord brought upon them extraordinary afflictions,
and destroyed them utterly.
10 ¹⁴ The Lord has cast down the thrones of rulers,
and has seated the lowly in their place.
10 ¹⁵ The Lord has plucked up the roots of the nations,
and has planted the humble in their place.
10 ¹⁶ The Lord has overthrown the lands of the nations,
and has destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
10 ¹⁷ He has removed some of them and destroyed them,
and has extinguished the memory of them from the earth.
10 ¹⁸ Pride was not created for men,
nor fierce anger for those born of women.