Ben Sira 10:12

12 The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

Ben Sira 10:12 In-Context

10 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.

11 All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.

12 The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

13 For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, end beasts, and worms.

14 The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: