10A wise magistrate educates his people,
   and the rule of an intelligent person is well ordered.
²As the people’s judge is, so are his officials;
   as the ruler of the city is, so are all its inhabitants.
³An undisciplined king ruins his people,
   but a city becomes fit to live in through the understanding of its rulers.
⁴The government of the earth is in the hand of the Lord,
   and over it he will raise up the right leader for the time.
⁵Human success is in the hand of the Lord,
   and it is he who confers honour upon the lawgiver.^*

The Sin of Pride

⁶Do not get angry with your neighbour for every injury,
   and do not resort to acts of insolence.
⁷Arrogance is hateful to the Lord and to mortals,
   and injustice is outrageous to both.
⁸Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
   on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.^*
12The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord;
   the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.
¹³For the beginning of pride is sin,
   and the one who clings to it pours out abominations.
Therefore the Lord brings upon them unheard-of calamities,
   and destroys them completely.
¹⁴The Lord overthrows the thrones of rulers,
   and enthrones the lowly in their place.
¹⁵The Lord plucks up the roots of the nations,^*
   and plants the humble in their place.
¹⁶The Lord lays waste the lands of the nations,
   and destroys them to the foundations of the earth.
¹⁷He removes some of them and destroys them,
   and erases the memory of them from the earth.
¹⁸Pride was not created for human beings,
   or violent anger for those born of women.