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When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed--
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Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
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Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?
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For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity. But fear God.
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If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
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Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.
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He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
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When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes?
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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.
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There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
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But those riches perish through misfortune; When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.