In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
No matter the wrong, do no violence to your neighbor,
and do not walk the path of arrogance.
Odious to the Lord and to men is arrogance,
and the sin of oppression they both hate.
Dominion is transferred from one people to another
because of the violence of the arrogant.
Why are dust and ashes proud?
Even during life man's body decays;
a slight illness--the doctor jests,
a king today--tomorrow he is dead.
When a man dies, he inherits corruption;
worms and gnats and maggots.
The beginning of pride is man's stubbornness
in withdrawing his heart from his Maker;
For pride is the reservoir of sin,
a source which runs over the vice;
Because of it God sends unheard of afflictions
and brings men to utter ruin.
The thrones of the arrogant, God overturns
and establishes the lowly in their stead.
The roots of the proud God plucks up,
to plant the humble in their place:
He breaks down their stem to the level of the ground,
then digs their roots from the earth.
The traces of the proud, God sweeps away
and effaces the memory of them from the earth.
Insolence is not allotted to a man,
nor stubborn anger to one born of woman. Sirach 10: 6-18Linkback:
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