6 Don’t be angry with your neighbour for every wrong.

Do nothing by works of violence.

7 Pride is hateful before the master and men.

Arrogance is abhorrent in the judgement of both.

8 Sovereignty is transferred from nation to nation

because of injustice, violence, and greed for money.

9 Why are dirt and ashes proud?[fn]

Because in life, my body decays.

10 A long disease mocks the physician.

The king of today will die tomorrow.

11 Because when a man is dead,

he will inherit maggots, vermin, and worms.

12 It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the master.

His heart has departed from him who made him.

13 Because the beginning of pride is sin.

He who keeps it will pour out abomination.

Because this cause the master brought upon them strange calamities

and utterly overthrew them.

14 The master threw down the thrones of rulers

and set the lowly in their place.

15 The master plucked up the roots of nations

and planted the lowly in their place.

16 The master overthrew the lands of nations

and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.

17 He took some of them away and destroyed them,

and made their memory to cease from the earth.

18 Pride has not been created for men,

nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women.