1. The impious flees, though no one pursues. But the just, like a confident lion, shall be without dread.
2. Because of the sins of the land, it has many princes. And because of the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the leader shall be prolonged.
3. A poor man slandering the poor is like a violent rainstorm in advance of a famine.
4. Those who abandon the law praise the impious. Those who guard it are inflamed against him.