Ecclesiastes Rabbah 8:3

¹“Do not be hasty to leave his presence; do not stand before him in an evil matter, as he does whatever pleases him” (Ecclesiastes 8:3). “Do not be hasty to leave his presence.” Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Gamda began: “My son, do not despise the admonition of the Lord” (Proverbs 3:11). It is taught: The one who begins, begins with a positive matter, and the one who concludes, concludes with a positive matter. in the Torah reading. It is taught: In the blessings, one reads and stops, in the curses, one does not stop; rather one person reads them all. “Do not despise the admonition of the Lord…” Due to: “I am with him in times of trouble” (Psalms 91:15), the Holy One blessed be He said: ‘My children are cursed; am I to be blessed?’ and the beginning of the next are not to be recited in the middle of the reading of the curses. “And do not loathe His rebuke” (Proverbs 3:11) – do not turn the rebuke of the Holy One blessed be He into multiple fragments. Rabbi Levi ben Panti read the curses before Rabbi Huna and he stammered in [reading] them. [Rabbi Huna] said to him: ‘Sound your voice, as these are not curses, these are rebukes; “do not despise the admonition of the Lord and do not loathe His rebuke.”’