Ecclesiastes 5:4-10

⁴When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

⁵It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

⁶Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

⁷Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

⁸If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

⁹It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

¹⁰He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.