Sirach 10:14-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:

¹⁵ Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.

¹⁶ Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.