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How can dust and ashes be proud? Even in life the human body decays.
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A long illness baffles the physician; the king of today will die tomorrow.
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For when one is dead he inherits maggots and vermin and worms.
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The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.
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For the beginning of pride is sin, and the one who clings to it pours out abominations. Therefore the Lord brings upon them unheard-of calamities, and destroys them completely.
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The Lord overthrows the thrones of rulers, and enthrones the lowly in their place.
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The Lord plucks up the roots of the nations, and plants the humble in their place.
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The Lord lays waste the lands of the nations, and destroys them to the foundations of the earth.
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He removes some of them and destroys them, and erases the memory of them from the earth.
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Pride was not created for human beings, or violent anger for those born of women.