¹³ What a shame—yes, how stupid!—to decide before knowing the facts!

² It is dangerous and sinful to rush into the unknown.

⁵ Steady plodding brings prosperity; hasty speculation brings poverty.

^6-7 Don’t demand an audience with the king as though you were some powerful prince. It is better to wait for an invitation rather than to be sent back to the end of the line, publicly disgraced!

^8-10 Don’t be hotheaded and rush to court! You may start something you can’t finish and go down before your neighbor in shameful defeat. So discuss the matter with him privately. Don’t tell anyone else, lest he accuse you of slander and you can’t withdraw what you said.

²⁰ The man who wants to do right will get a rich reward. But the man who wants to get rich quick will quickly fail.

²² Trying to get rich quick is evil and leads to poverty.

²⁰ There is more hope for a fool than for a man of quick temper.