Proverbs 25:4-10

⁴Do thou away rust from silver, and a full clean vessel shall go out.

⁵Do thou away unpiety from the cheer of the king, and his throne shall be made steadfast by rightfulness or rightwiseness.

⁶Appear thou not glorious before the king, and stand thou not in the place of great men.

⁷For it is better, that it be said to thee, Ascend thou or Go up hither, than that thou be made low before the prince.

⁸Bring thou not forth soon those things in strife, which thine eyes saw; lest afterward thou mayest not amend, when thou hast made thy friend unhonest or he hath shamed thee.

⁹Treat thy cause with thy friend, and show thou not private matter to a strange man;

¹⁰lest peradventure he have joy of thy fall, when he hath heard, and cease not to do shame to thee.