6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
8. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
9. Whoever removeth stones shall be hurt by them; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered by it.
10. If the iron is blunt, and he doth not whet the edge, then must he use more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
11. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
13. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
14. A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
15. The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.