3 Maccabees 2:23

²¹At that time God, who seeth all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.

²²Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.

— 3 Maccabees 2:23 —

²⁴When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.

²⁵He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his aforementioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness;