Ecclesiastes 10:6-11

⁶folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

⁷I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth.

⁸He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

⁹Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

¹⁰If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

¹¹If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.