Ben Sira 10:14

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

Ben Sira 10:14 In-Context

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:

15 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.

16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.