Ben Sira 31:14

14 Do not reach out your hand for everything you see, and do not crowd your neighbor at the dish.

Ben Sira 31:14 In-Context

12 Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, "How much food there is here!"

13 Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been created more greedy than the eye? Therefore it sheds tears for any reason.

14 Do not reach out your hand for everything you see, and do not crowd your neighbor at the dish.

15 Judge your neighbor's feelings by your own, and in every matter be thoughtful.

16 Eat what is set before you like a well brought-up person, and do not chew greedily, or you will give offense.

Footnotes

• [a]. Gk [him]