Ben Sira 21:8

8 Anyone who borrows money to build a house is just collecting stones for his own tomb.

Ben Sira 21:8 In-Context

6 If you refuse to accept correction, you are committing a sin; and if you fear the Lord, you will make a sincere change in your ways.

7 Someone may be famous as a good speaker, but when he is wrong, a sensible person will detect it.

8 Anyone who borrows money to build a house is just collecting stones for his own tomb.

9 A group of people who have no respect for the Law is like a pile of kindling; they will meet a fiery end.

10 The road that sinners walk is smooth and paved, but it leads to the world of the dead.

Footnotes

• [a] his own tomb; [some manuscripts have] the winter.