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.
5. To whom will they be generous that are stingy with themselvesand do not enjoy what is their own?
6. None are worse than those who are stingy with themselves;they punish their own avarice.
7. If ever they do good, it is by mistake;in the end they reveal their meanness.