1Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
2As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
3When 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.
4It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
5Let 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.
6Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
7If 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.
