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Ben Sira 29:23

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23 Be content with little or much.
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Ben Sira 29:23 In-Context

21 The essentials for life are water and bread and clothing and a house to cover one's nakedness.
22 Better is the life of a poor man under the shelter of his roof than sumptuous food in another man's house.
23 Be content with little or much.
24 It is a miserable life to go from house to house, and where you are a stranger you may not open your mouth;
25 you will play the host and provide drink without being thanked, and besides this you will hear bitter words:
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.