Ecclesiastes 10:5-12

⁵An evil there is, that I saw under the sun, and going out as by error from the face of the prince;

⁶a fool set in high dignity, and rich men sit beneath.

⁷I saw servants on horses, and princes as servants going on the earth.

⁸He that diggeth a ditch, shall fall into it; and an adder shall bite him, that destroyeth a hedge.

⁹He that beareth over stones, shall be tormented in those; and he that cutteth trees, shall be wounded of those or them.

¹⁰If iron is folded again, and it is not as before, but is made blunt, it shall be made sharp with much travail; and wisdom shall follow after busyness.

¹¹If a serpent biteth, it biteth in silence; he that backbiteth privily, hath nothing less than it.

¹²The words of the mouth of a wise man be grace; and the lips of an unwise man shall cast him down.