Ecclesiastes Chapter 5 Verse 4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up.

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also [he that is] born in his kingdom becometh poor.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

[There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

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.

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.

The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 5, Verse 4