Catholic Public Domain Version

Sirach 29:29-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

29. Let yourself be pleased with little instead of much, and you will not hear the reproach of being away from home.

30. It is a wicked life to go from house to house as a guest. For wherever he is a guest, he will not act confidently, nor open his mouth.

31. He will entertain, and feed, and give drink to the ungrateful, and beyond this, he will listen to bitter words:

32. "Go, my guest, and set the table, and let others eat from what you have in your hand."

33. "Depart from the honored face of my friends. For it has become necessary for my house to host my brother instead."

34. These things are grievous to a man having understanding: to take advantage of a household, and to reproach a lender.