Ecclesiastes 5:2-13

²Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

³For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

⁴When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest — complete.

⁵Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.

⁶Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that 'it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

⁷For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

⁸If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

⁹And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

¹⁰Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.

¹¹In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

¹²Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

¹³There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.