Dead Fly Wey Dey Inside Oil
Sayings about how small thing fit spoil big thing: dead fly inside perfume, slave wey dey ride horse while prince dey waka for leg, fool wey im own mouth take am enter wahala. Calm heart dey cool ruler vex; roof wey dey sag and careless word for inside bedroom, both dey start small.
10 1Just as dead fly dey make di perfumer im oil begin smell bad and turn sour, na so small foolishness fit weigh pass wisdom and honour. 2Di heart of di wise person dey lean go im right hand, but di heart of foolish person dey lean go im left hand. 3Even as di foolish person dey waka for road, sense no dey am, and e dey show everybody sey na fool e be. 4If di ruler vex rise against you, no comot for your place, because when you cool down, e dey settle even big wahala.
5One bad thing dey wey I don see under di sun, di kind mistake wey dey comot from ruler: 6dem dey put foolishness for plenty high place, while rich people dey sidon for low place. 7I don see slaves dey ride horse, and princes dey waka for ground like slaves. 8Whoever dig pit fit fall inside am, and whoever break wall, snake fit bite am. 9Whoever dey cut stone fit make dem hurt am, and whoever dey split wood dey inside danger from dem. 10If di axe don dull and dem no sharpen im mouth, you go need use more power; but wisdom na im dey bring success.
11If snake bite before dem charm am, di charmer no gain anything. 12Di words wey comot from wise man mouth dey bring am favour, but di lips of foolish person dey chop am finish. 13Di beginning of im words na foolishness, and di end of im talk na wicked madness. 14But di foolish person no dey stop to talk. Nobody sabi wetin dey come, and who fit tell person wetin go happen after am?
15Di work of foolish people dey tire dem finish, because dem no even sabi di road go town. 16Wahala dey for you, o land, when your king na small pikin and your princes dey chop party for morning. 17Blessing dey for you, o land, when your king na pikin of noble people and your princes dey chop for di correct time—for power, no be for to drink drunk. 18Because of laziness, di roof beam dey bend, and because of hand wey no dey work, di house dey leak. 19Dem dey make food for laughter, and wine dey make life sweet, and money dey answer everything. 20No curse di king even inside your mind, and no curse di rich person even inside your bedroom, because bird of di sky fit carry your words, and creature wey get wing fit report wetin you talk.
