Home and children
21 Life's foundations are water, bread, clothing, and a house for ensuring privacy.
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Better is the life of the poor under a shelter of rafters than magnificent food in foreign countries.
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Be content with a little or a lot, and you will never be put down for being a sojourner.
24
Going from house to house is a miserable life, and wherever you are an immigrant, don't open your mouth.
25
You will entertain and provide drink without thanks, and you will hear bitter words such as these:
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"Come here, foreigner, prepare a table; and if there's something in your hand, feed it to me.
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Go away, foreigner, I have a reputable guest; my brother has come to visit, and I need the house."
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These are difficult things for a person of intelligence: criticism for being an immigrant and rebuke from a moneylender.