n slighted, and his words not heard?

9:17. The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a
prince among fools.

9:18. Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in
one, shall lose many good things.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 10

Observations on wisdom and folly, ambition and detraction.

10:1. Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory
is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

10:2. The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a
fool is in his left hand.

10:3. Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself
is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.

10:4. If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not
thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

10:5. There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an
error proceeding from the face of the prince:

10:6. A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.

10:7. I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the
ground as servants.

10:8. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a
hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

10:9. He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that
cutteth trees, shall be wounded by them.

10:10. If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt,
with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow
wisdom.

10:11. If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that
backbiteth secretly.

10:12. The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a
fool shall throw him down headlong.

10:13. The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a
mischievous error.

10:14. A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before
him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

10:15. The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to
the city.

10:16. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the
princes eat in the morning.

10:17. Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat
in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

10:18. By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the
weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.

10:19. For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast:
and all things obey money.

10:20. Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and s