3. When you make a vow to God, delay not its fulfillment. For God has no pleasure in fools; fulfill what you have vowed.
4. It is better not to make a vow than make it and not fulfill it.
5. Let not your utterances make you guilty, and say not before his representative, “It was a mistake.” Why should God be angered by your words and destroy the works of your hands?
6. Despite many dreams, futilities, and a multitude of words, fear God!
7. If you see oppression of the poor, and violation of rights and justice in the realm, do not be astonished by the fact, for the high official has another higher than he watching him and above these are others higher still—.
8. But profitable for a land in such circumstances is a king concerned about cultivation.
9. The covetous are never satisfied with money, nor lovers of wealth with their gain; so this too is vanity.
10. Where there are great riches, there are also many to devour them. Of what use are they to the owner except as a feast for the eyes alone?
11. Sleep is sweet to the laborer, whether there is little or much to eat; but the abundance of the rich allows them no sleep.
12. This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owners to their own hurt.