Ecclesiastes

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.

Do not be rash [with] your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God [is] in Heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore let your words be few.

For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice by the multitude of words.

When you vow a vow to God, do not wait to pay it. For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed.

[it is] better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the angel that it [was] an error. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

For in the multitude of dreams, both words and vanities abound; but fear God.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He [who is] higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

And the advantage of a land, it is for all; [even] a king has a field being tilled.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves plenty does not gain. This [is] also vanity.

When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit [is it] to its owners, except to see [it] with their eyes?

The sleep of a laboring man [is] sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

But those riches perish by evil use. And he brings forth a son, and nothing [is] in his hand.