2 Maccabees 9:12 CPDV

¹⁰  And him who, a little before, thought that he could touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry, because of the intolerable stench.

¹¹  And so, from then on, being led away from his heavy arrogance by the admonishment of a divine plague, he began to come to an understanding of himself, with his pains increasing through every moment.

¹²  And, when he could not even bear his own stench, he spoke in this way: 'It is just to be subject to God, and a mortal should not consider himself equal to God.'

¹³  Then this wicked one prayed to the Lord, from whom, subsequently, there might be no mercy.

¹⁴  And the city, to which he was going in haste to pull it down to the ground and to make it a mass grave, he now wanted to make free.