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Better is the life of the poor under their own crude roof than sumptuous food in the house of others.
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Be content with little or much, and you will hear no reproach for being a guest.
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It is a miserable life to go from house to house; as a guest you should not open your mouth;
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you will play the host and provide drink without being thanked, and besides this you will hear rude words like these:
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"Come here, stranger, prepare the table; let me eat what you have there."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, 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.