5. Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.
6. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it [is] an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?
7. For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.
8. If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones [are] over them.
9. And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.
10. Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied [with] silver, nor he who is in love with stores [with] increase. Even this [is] vanity.
11. In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
12. Sweet [is] the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.
13. There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
14. And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!