2 Maccabees 9:9

9 So the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man, and while he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

2 Maccabees 9:9 In-Context

7 However he not at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews and commanding to hasten the journey. But it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot as it was carried violently, so that, having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.

8 And thus he, that a little before thought he could command the waves of the sea (so proud was he beyond the condition of man), and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground and carried in a horse litter, showing forth unto all the manifest power of God.

9 So the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man, and while he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

10 And the man who thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.

11 Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.