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How can he who is dust and ashes be proud? for even in life his bowels decay.
10
A long illness baffles the physician; the king of today will die tomorrow.
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For when a man is dead, he will inherit creeping things, and wild beasts, and worms.
12
The beginning of man's pride is to depart from the Lord; his heart has forsaken his Maker.
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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.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.