4. If the anger of a ruler rises against you,do not leave your post;for calmness pacifies great offenses.
5. There is an evil that I have seen under the sunlike an error that goes out from a ruler:
6. Folly is set in many high places,but the rich sit in a low place.
7. I have seen slaves riding on horses,and officials walking along the ground like slaves.
8. He who digs a pit will fall into it,and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.
9. He who quarries stones is injured by them,and he who splits wood is in danger from them.