2 Maccabees 9:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army.

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

¹¹ And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.