New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ben Sira 14:1-4 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

1. Happy those whose mouth causes them no grief,those who are not stung by remorse for sin.

2. Happy are those whose conscience does not reproach them,those who have not lost hope.

3. Wealth is not appropriate for the mean-spirited;to misers, what use is gold?

4. What they deny themselves they collect for someone else,and strangers will live sumptuously on their possessions.