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 (or Take thou away wicked persons from before the king), and his throne shall be made steadfast by rightfulness.

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 hither (or Come thou up here), 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. (Bring thou not soon forth those things in strife, or an argument, which thine eyes saw; lest afterward thou cannot correct it, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.)

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

¹⁰lest peradventure he have joy of thy fall (or lest perhaps he have joy over thy fall), when he hath heard (of it), and cease not to do shame to thee.