Ecclesiastes 10:4

A Conservative Version

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee, leave not thy place, for deference allays great offences.

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Be not hasty to go out of his presence. Persist not in an evil matter, for he does whatever pleases him.

By long-suffering a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler: