4. When thou dost vow a vow unto God, do not defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast vowed.
5. It is better that thou should not vow than that thou should vow and not pay.
6. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was ignorance. Why should thou cause God to be angry because of thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands?
7. Because dreams abound, and vanities and the words are many, but fear thou God.
8. If thou seest violence unto the poor and the extortion of rights and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for height is looking upon height; and there is one higher than they.
9. And there is higher authority in all of the things of the earth, but he who serves the field is king.
10. He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity.
11. When goods increase, those that eat them are increased; and what good is there to the owners thereof, except the beholding of them with their eyes?