Sirach 10:14
Good News Translation
The Lord has overthrown kings and put humbler people in their place.

New Revised Standard Version
The Lord overthrows the thrones of rulers, and enthrones the lowly in their place.

Contemporary English Version
He removes powerful rulers, replacing them with the humble.

New American Bible
God overturns the thrones of the proud and enthrones the lowly in their place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Sirach 10:12
The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

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

Sirach 10:15
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.

Sirach 10:16
Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.

Context
Sirach 10
13For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. 14The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: 15Because 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.…
Cross References
Sirach 10:12
The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

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

Sirach 10:15
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.

Sirach 10:16
Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 10:13
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