A fly perching between a bull's horns is asked by a bee why it is wasting its time there. The fly replies that "I and the bull have worked all day at ploughing this great plain" and suggests that the bee should be as industrious. The author then comments: "the lowly who walks amongst the mighty or ... the iniquitous who is mustered in the camp of the upright. In their counsel and in their strength he cannot stand, but by the utterance of his mouth he is joined with them to make his might equal to theirs and his wisdom to their wisdom".

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