rsv Ecclesiastes:5:5-11
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?