11. When people are dead,they inherit maggots, vermin,and worms.
12. Human arrogance begins when people rebel against the Lord,and their hearts rebelagainst the one who made them.
13. The beginning of arrogance is sin,and those who cling to itwill pour out blasphemy.For this reasonthe Lord brings calamities upon them,and he ruins them completely.
14. The Lord destroyed the thrones of rulers,and he raised up the gentlein their place.
15. The Lord plucked up the roots of nations,and he planted the humblein their place.
16. The Lord ruined the lands of the nations,and he leveled themto their very foundations.
17. He removed some peopleand destroyed them,and he erased their memoryfrom the earth.