2 Maccabees 9:11-13

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.

¹² And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.

¹³ Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.