- Time to put all this learnin' to the test. Strepsiades argues with the First Creditor. He doesn't even need Pheidippides's help, it seems, in getting the First Creditor to go away. However, the First Creditor promises to file suit.
- Now it's the Second Creditor's turn. Strepsiades refuses to pay him as well, and that creditor also (kind of) threatens to sue.
- The Chorus weighs in disapprovingly on Strepsiades's actions here, indicating that he'll come to regret his "villainy" before the day is over.