Good News Translation
Pride has its beginning when a person abandons the Lord, his maker.

New Revised Standard Version
The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.

Contemporary English Version
We humans start to be arrogant when our hearts turn away from the Lord our Creator.

New American Bible
The beginning of pride is stubbornness in withdrawing the heart from one’s Maker.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

Sirach 10:10
There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.

Sirach 10:11
All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.

Sirach 10:13
For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.

Sirach 10:14
The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: