1. Guard your steps when you go to the House of Elohim. And draw near to listen rather than to give the slaughtering of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
2. Do not be hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart hurry to bring forth a word before Elohim. For Elohim is in the heavens, and you on earth, therefore let your words be few.
3. For a dream comes through the greatness of the task, and a fool’s voice is known by his many words.
4. When you make a vow to Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for He takes no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed.
5. It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
6. Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of Elohim that it was a mistake. Why should Elohim be wroth at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
7. For in much dreaming and many words there is futility. But fear Elohim.
8. If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.
9. And the increase of the land is for all. The sovereign himself is served from the field.
10. He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, and increase. That too is futile.