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.
8It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
9He 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.
10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
