Sirach 10:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
    on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.
⁹ How can he who is dust and ashes be proud?
    for even in life his bowels decay.^[a]
10 A long illness baffles the physician;^[b]
    the king of today will die tomorrow.