5 Reproach and injury will make resources useless. And a house that is exceedingly wealthy will become powerless through pride. In this way, the resources of the arrogant will be eradicated.
6 Supplications from the mouth of the pauper will reach all the way to the ears of God, and judgment will come to him quickly.
7 Whoever hates correction is walking in the steps of a sinner. But whoever fears God will convert within his heart.
8 He who has power by means of a bold tongue will be known from far away. But an understanding man knows to slip past him.
9 Whoever builds his house, paid for by another, is like one who gathers his building stones in winter.
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