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The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 5, Verse 3

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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.
King James Version
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words.
American Standard Version
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
New English Translation
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
World English Bible
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
4
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.
5
Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6
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?
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For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
8
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.
9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.
11
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?
12
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.
13
There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.