Ecclesiastes 10:6-11 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Ecclesiastes 10