⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

²⁷ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

²⁸ A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

⁹ If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

³ It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

¹⁴ The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.