Common English Bible

Sirach 29:25-28 Common English Bible (CEB)

25. You will entertain and provide drinkwithout thanks,and you will hear bitter wordssuch as these:

26. "Come here, foreigner, prepare a table;and if there’s something in your hand,feed it to me.

27. Go away, foreigner,I have a reputable guest;my brother has come to visit,and I need the house."

28. These are difficult thingsfor a person of intelligence:criticism for being an immigrantand rebuke from a moneylender.