² Do not be ^(C)rash with your mouth,
And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God.
For God is in heaven, and you on earth;
Therefore let your words ^(D)be few.
³ For a dream comes through much activity,
And ^(E)a fool’s voice is known by his many words.

^4 (F)When you make a vow to God, do not delay to ^(G)pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed—
^5 (H)Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

¹⁰ He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.

¹¹ When goods increase,
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes?

¹² The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

^13 (N)There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
¹⁴ But those riches perish through ^[c]misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
^15 (O)As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.

¹⁶ And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And ^(P)what profit has he ^(Q)who has labored for the wind?
¹⁷ All his days ^(R)he also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.