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It is a miserable life to go from house to house, and where you are a stranger you may 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 bitter words:
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"Come here, stranger, prepare the table, and if you have anything at hand, let me have it to eat."
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"Give place, stranger, to an honored person; my brother has come to stay with me; I need my house."
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.