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Vulgate (Latin)   
brevem languorem praecidit medicus sic et rex hodie est et cras morietur

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Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
The beginning of human pride is the forsaking of the Lord, the withdrawal of one’s heart from its Maker.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.
Good News Translation®   
Pride has its beginning when a person abandons the Lord, his maker.
Wycliffe Bible   
The beginning of (the) pride of man was to be apostate from God; for his heart went away from him that made him. [The beginning of the pride of man to go backward from God; for from him that made him his heart went away.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The beginning of man’s pride is to depart from the Lord; his heart has forsaken his Maker.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Human arrogance begins when people rebel against the Lord, and their hearts rebel against the one who made them.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
The beginning of pride is stubbornness in withdrawing the heart from one’s Maker.
Revised Standard Version   
The beginning of man’s pride is to depart from the Lord; his heart has forsaken his Maker.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.