Sirach 10:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ How can dust and ashes be arrogant?
    Even when they are alive,
    human bodies are decaying.^[a]
10 A long illness mocks a doctor;
        today’s king will die tomorrow.
¹¹     When people are dead,
        they inherit maggots, vermin,^[b]
        and worms.