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.
8. Misers are evil people,they turn away and disregard others.
9. The greedy see their share as not enough;greedy injustice dries up the soul.
10. The eye of the miserly is rapacious for food,but there is none of it on their own table.
11. My son, if you have the means, treat yourself well,and enjoy life as best you can.
12. Remember that death does not delay,and you have not been told the grave’s appointed time.
13. Before you die, be good to your friends;give them a share in what you possess.
14. Do not deprive yourself of good things nowor let a choice portion escape you.
15. Will you not leave your riches to others,and your earnings to be divided by lot?
16. Give and take, treat yourself well,for in Sheol there are no joys to seek.
17. All flesh grows old like a garment;the age-old law is: everyone must die.
18. As with the leaves growing on a luxuriant tree—one falls off and another sprouts—So with the generations of flesh and blood:one dies and another flourishes.