Ecclesiastes

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.

Consider the work of God.  Who can make straight, what He has made crooked?

Better is the end of a thing than it beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.  For what advantage has the wise man over the fool?  And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?  Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.  To draw hear to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.  Be not rash with your mouth, not let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth.  Therefore let your words be few.  For a dream comes with much business, and a fools voice with many words.

When you vow a vow to God, do not delaying paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools.  Pay what you vow.  It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.  Let not you mouth lead you into sin, and so 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? For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity, but God is the one you must fear.