Sirach 10:15
Good News Translation
The Lord has pulled up nations by the roots and established humbler ones in their place.

New Revised Standard Version
The Lord plucks up the roots of the nations, and plants the humble in their place.

Contemporary English Version
When God decides to give land to a humble nation, he pulls up others by the roots

New American Bible
God plucks up the roots of the proud, and plants the lowly in their place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Sirach 10:14
The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:

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

Sirach 10:17
God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.

Context
Sirach 10
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. 16Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.…
Cross References
Sirach 10:13
For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.

Sirach 10:14
The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:

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

Sirach 10:17
God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 10:14
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