Holy Scripture
Sirach 10:12
A church father on this verse
“"Those who do such things deserve to die." Which things? Those he had previously listed as punishments. In fact, "God gave them up," he says, "in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, because they do that which should not be done. To be an adulterer is already a kind of punishment; to be a liar, a miser, a cheat, a m…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, And his heart is turned away from his Maker.
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10The physician cutteth off a long disease: And he that is today a king tomorrow shall die.
11For when a man is dead, He shall inherit creeping things, beasts, and worms.
— Sirach 10:12 —
13For pride is the beginning of sin, And he that hath it shall pour out abomination: And therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, And overthrew them utterly.
14The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, And set up the meek in their stead.