8
Sovereignty passes from nation to nation on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.
9
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.
11
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.
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.