2. Do not be quick to speak with your mouth,nor let your heart be hasty to utter a wordbefore God.For God is in heaven,and you are on the earth;therefore may your words be few.
3. For a dream comes when there is a great burden,and a foolish voice when there are many words.
4. When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it because He has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you have vowed.
5. Better it is that you do not make a vow than you make a vow and not fulfill it.
6. Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was an error. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
7. For when there is an abundance of dreams and futilities, then words increase too. Therefore it is God you should fear.
8. If you see in a district the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness, do not be astounded at the matter; for the high official is watched over by an even higher official, and there are even higher officials over them.
9. But this is an advantage to the land in every way, like a king committed to a cultivated field.
10. He who loves money will not be satisfied with money;nor he who loves abundance with increase.This also is vanity.
11. When there is an increase of good things,then there is an increase of those who devour them.And what profit have the ownersexcept to see them with their eyes?
12. Sweet is the sleep of a laboring man,whether he eats a little or much;but the abundance of the richwill not let him sleep.