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Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
    on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.[a](A)
How can dust and ashes be proud?
    Even in life the human body is infested with worms.[b](B)
10 A long illness mocks the physician;
    the king of today will die tomorrow.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.8 Other ancient authorities add here or after 10.9a: Nothing is more wicked than one who loves money, for such a person puts his own soul up for sale.
  2. 10.9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain