Ecclesiastes 5:4-8 (5:5)Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.

Webster⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ (5:5)Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay. ⁵ (5:6)Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands? ⁶ (5:7)For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. ⁷ (5:8)If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are higher than they. ⁸ (5:9)Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.