²⁹ ·Patient people have great [Patience leads to] understanding,
but ·people with quick tempers show their foolishness [impatience leads to stupid mistakes].

³² Patience is better than strength [or A patient person is better than a warrior].
Controlling your temper is better than capturing a city.

¹¹ The ·wise [insightful] ·are patient [^Lhold in their anger];
they will be ·honored [praised; glorified] if they ignore ·insults [offenses].

23 ·If [or When] you sit down to eat with a ruler,
    notice ·the food that [^Lwhat] is in front of you.
² ·Control yourself [^LPlace a knife at your throat]
    ·if you have a big [or to control your] appetite.
³ Don’t ·be greedy [long] for his fine foods,
    because that food might be ·a trick [false; deceptive].

²⁸ Those who ·do not control themselves [are unrestrained in spirit]
are like a city whose walls are broken down.