⁶     but one who hates discussion lacks understanding.^(A)

¹⁶ A person may make a slip without intending it.
    Who has not sinned with his tongue?^(A)

⁸ Happy the man who lives with a sensible wife
    and who does not plow with ox and ass together,^[a]
who does not slip with the tongue
    and who has not become enslaved to an inferior.^(A)