3. For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
4. When you vow a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.
5. Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
6. Permit not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
7. For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also many vanities: but you fear God.
8. If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one ; and there are yet higher ones over them.
9. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served from the field.
10. He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
11. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?
12. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13. There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.
14. But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.