6. An untimely explanation is like music in a time of mourning. But the sharp correction and doctrine of wisdom are ever timely.
7. Whoever teaches the foolish is like someone who glues together a broken pot.
8. Whoever explains a word to one who is not listening is like someone who suddenly awakens a sleeping person from a deep sleep.
9. Whoever explains wisdom to the senseless is like one speaking to a sleeping person. And at the end of the explanation, he says: "Who is this?"
10. Weep over the dead, for his light has failed. And weep over the foolish, for his understanding has failed.
11. Weep only a little over the dead, for he is at rest.
12. But the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.
13. The mourning for the dead is seven days; but for the foolish and the impious, it is all the days of their life.