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Ben Sira 14
Ben Sira 14:1-8
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Ben Sira 14:1-8
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Blessed is the man who does not blunder with his lips and need not suffer grief for sin.
2
Blessed is he whose heart does not condemn him, and who has not given up his hope.
3
Riches are not seemly for a stingy man; and of what use is property to an envious man?
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Whoever accumulates by depriving himself, accumulates for others; and others will live in luxury on his goods.
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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;
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even if he does good, he does it unintentionally, and betrays his baseness in the end.
8
Evil is the man with a grudging eye; he averts his face and disregards people.
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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.