5
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.
9
A greedy man's eye is not satisfied with a portion, and mean injustice withers the soul.
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.