Ecclesiastes 5:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger^[a] that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

⁷ For when dreams increase, empty words grow many:^[b] but do you fear God.

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.