6. No matter what the wrong, never harm your neighboror go the way of arrogance.
7. Odious to the Lord and to mortals is pride,and for both oppression is a crime.
8. Sovereignty is transferred from one people to anotherbecause of the lawlessness of the proud.
9. Why are dust and ashes proud?Even during life the body decays.
10. A slight illness—the doctor jests;a king today—tomorrow he is dead.
11. When a people die,they inherit corruption and worms, gnats and maggots.
12. The beginning of pride is stubbornnessin withdrawing the heart from one’s Maker.
13. For sin is a reservoir of insolence,a source which runs over with vice;Because of it God sends unheard-of afflictionsand strikes people with utter ruin.
14. God overturns the thrones of the proudand enthrones the lowly in their place.
15. God plucks up the roots of the proud,and plants the lowly in their place.
16. The Lord lays waste the lands of the nations,and destroys them to the very foundations of the earth.
17. He removes them from the earth, destroying them,erasing their memory from the world.
18. Insolence does not befit mortals,nor impudent anger those born of women.
19. Whose offspring can be honorable? Human offspring.Those who fear the Lord are honorable offspring.Whose offspring can be disgraceful? Human offspring.Those who transgress the commandment are disgraceful offspring.