5. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. [Prov. 20:25; Acts 5:4.]
6. Do not allow your mouth to cause your body to sin, and do not say before the messenger [the priest] that it was an error or mistake. Why should God be [made] angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? [Mal. 2:7.]
7. For in a multitude of dreams there is futility and worthlessness, and ruin in a flood of words. But [reverently] fear God [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].
8. If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in the state or province, do not marvel at the matter. [Be sure that there are those who will attend to it] for a higher [official] than the high is observing, and higher ones are over them.
9. Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field and in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.
10. He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with gain. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!
11. When goods increase, they who eat them increase also. And what gain is there to their owner except to see them with his eyes?
12. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not let him sleep.
13. There is a serious and severe evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt.