Ecclesiastes 10:5-13

⁵There is an euil that I haue seene vnder the sunne, as an errour that proceedeth from the face of him that ruleth.

⁶Follie is set in great excellencie, and the riche set in the lowe place.

⁷I haue seene seruants on horses, and princes walking as seruants on the ground.

⁸He that diggeth a pit, shall fal into it, and he that breaketh the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

⁹He that remooueth stones, shall hurt himselfe thereby, and hee that cutteth wood, shall be in danger thereby.

¹⁰If the yron be blunt, and one hath not whet the edge, he must then put to more strength: but the excellencie to direct a thing is wisedome.

¹¹If the serpent bite, when he is not charmed: no better is a babbler.

¹²The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

¹³The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.