If the anger of the ruler rises against you, (A)do not leave your place,
    (B)for calmness[a] will lay great offenses to rest.

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were (C)an error proceeding from the ruler: (D)folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. (E)I have seen slaves (F)on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.

He who (G)digs a pit will fall into it,
    and (H)a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:4 Hebrew healing

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