Ecclesiastes 10:5-13

⁵There is something else that I have seen here on this earth, something that rulers sometimes do that is wrong/inappropriate:

⁶They appoint foolish people to have important positions, while they appoint rich people to have unimportant positions.

⁷They allow slaves to ride on horses like rich people usually do, but they force officials to walk like slaves usually do.

⁸It is possible that those who dig pits will fall into one of those pits. It is possible that someone who tears down a wall will be bitten by a snake that is in that wall.

⁹If you work in a quarry, it is possible that a stone will fall on you and injure you. It is possible that men who split logs will be injured by one of those logs.

¹⁰If your axe is not sharp DOU, you will need to work harder to cut down a tree, but by being wise, you will succeed.

¹¹If a snake bites a man before he charms/tames it, his ability to charm snakes will not benefit him.

¹²Wise people say MTY what is sensible, and because of that, people honor them; but foolish people are destroyed by what they say MTY.

¹³When foolish people start to talk, they say things that are foolish, and they end by saying things that are both wicked and foolish.