Ecclesiastes 10:9-18

⁹Whoso quarrieth 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 the charmer hath no advantage.

¹²The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness.

¹⁴A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

¹⁵The labour of fools wearieth every one of them, for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

¹⁶Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, and thy princes feast in the morning!

¹⁷Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

¹⁸By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.