^{1 Ref} Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

^{2 Ref} Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

^{3 Ref} For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

^{4 Ref} When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest.

^{5 Ref} Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

^{6 Ref} Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that is was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

^{7 Ref} For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.