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Pride is hateful before God and men: and ah iniquity of nations is execrable.
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A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits.
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But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud?
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There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.
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All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.
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The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.
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For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, end beasts, and worms.
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The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:
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Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: be that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.
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Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.
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God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.