1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
2. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
3. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
4. When thou vowest a vow unto God defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
7. For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God
8. If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
9. Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field.
10. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
11. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
12. The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.