5. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
6. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
7. For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
8. If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
9. But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.
10. He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
11. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?