3
Riches are not seemly for a stingy man; and of what use is property to an envious man?
4
Whoever accumulates by depriving himself, accumulates for others; and others will live in luxury on his goods.
5
If a man is mean to himself, to whom will he be generous? He will not enjoy his own riches.
6
No one is meaner than the man who is grudging to himself, and this is the retribution for his baseness;
7
even if he does good, he does it unintentionally, and betrays his baseness in the end.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.