Sirach 10:7, 12-13, 15-16
Odious to the Lord and to mortals is pride,/ and for both oppression is a crime.
The beginning of pride is stubbornness/ in withdrawing the heart from one’s Maker.For sin is a reservoir of insolence,/ a source which runs over with vice;
God plucks up the roots of the proud,/ and plants the lowly in their place.The Lord lays waste the lands of the nations,/ and destroys them to the very foundations of the earth.