2 Maccabees 9:8

8 Only a short time earlier, he had thought in his superhuman arrogance to command the waves of the sea and to be able to place the mountain peaks in a pair of scales. Now he was thrown down to the ground and was carried in a stretcher for the remainder of his journey, demonstrating God's power to all.

2 Maccabees 9:8 In-Context

6 This was altogether just, since he had tortured the inner organs of others with many extraordinary torments.

7 By no means, however, did it put a stop to his arrogance. In his contempt, a fiery anger against the Jews still filled him, and he issued a command to increase the speed of the journey. Then he fell from the chariot as it rushed along, and he suffered a severe accident that caused him pain all over his body.

8 Only a short time earlier, he had thought in his superhuman arrogance to command the waves of the sea and to be able to place the mountain peaks in a pair of scales. Now he was thrown down to the ground and was carried in a stretcher for the remainder of his journey, demonstrating God's power to all.

9 Worms issued from the eyes of this ungodly man. While he was living in pain and in agony, his flesh was rotting away, and the whole camp stank of rottenness from his smell.

10 The one who had formerly thought that he could touch the stars of heaven couldn't be transported by anyone because of the intense, unbearable stench.

Footnotes

• [a]. Gk litter