Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter  any  thing before God: for God  is  in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice  is known  by multitude of words. When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for  he hath  no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better  is it  that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it  was  an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? For in the multitude of dreams and many words  there are  also  divers  vanities: but fear thou God. If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for  he that is  higher than the highest regardeth; and  there be  higher than they. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king  himself  is served by the field. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this  is  also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good  is there  to the owners thereof, saving the beholding  of them  with their eyes? The sleep of a labouring man  is  sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. There is a sore evil  which  I have seen under the sun,  namely , riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and  there is  nothing in his hand. As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. And this also  is  a sore evil,  that  in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? All his days also he eateth in darkness, and  he hath  much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. Behold  that  which I have seen:  it is  good and comely  for one  to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it  is  his portion. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this  is  the gift of God. For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth  him  in the joy of his heart.