7. For better it is that it be said to thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thy eyes have seen.
8. Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.
9. Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and reveal not a secret to another:
10. Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thy infamy turn not away.
11. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
12. As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.