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The necessities of life are water, food, clothing, and a home where you can have privacy.
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It is better to be poor and live under your own crude roof than to enjoy lavish banquets in other people's homes.
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Be happy with what you have, even if it isn't very much, and don't listen to anyone who would insult your home and family.
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Going from house to house is a miserable way to live. Anywhere you go, you don't dare speak.
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You welcome the guests and pour the drinks, and nobody thanks you. Instead, people humiliate you by saying things like:
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[a].
don't listen . . . family; [or] don't listen to insults from your family; [some manuscripts do not have these words; one ancient translation has] don't get a reputation for living off other people.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.