Ben Sira 29:21-28

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:

26 "Come here, stranger, prepare the table, and if you have anything at hand, let me have it to eat."

27 "Give place, stranger, to an honored person; my brother has come to stay with me; I need my house."

28 These things are hard to bear for a man who has feeling: scolding about lodging and the reproach of the moneylender.