4. If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness lays to rest great faults.
5. There is an evil I have seen under the sun, as a mistake coming from the ruler:
6. Folly is set in many high positions, while the rich sit in a humble place.
7. I have seen servants on horses – and rulers walking on the ground like servants.
8. He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake.
9. He who quarries stones is hurt by them. He who splits wood is endangered by it.
10. If an iron tool is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, then he needs more strength, and wisdom is advantageous to make right.
11. If the snake bites without enchantment, then ‘the master of the tongue’ is no better!
12. Words of a wise man’s mouth show favour, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;
13. the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness.