12 Do you sit at a great table? Don’t be greedy there. Don’t say, “There is a lot of food on it!” (WEB) 13 Remember that a greedy eye is a wicked thing. What has been created more greedy than an eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face. (WEB) 14 Don’t stretch your hand wherever it looks. Don’t thrust yourself with it into the dish. (WEB)
Sirach 31:12–14
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Proverbs 23:5–7
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky. 6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies; 7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to y…
Sirach 37:28–30
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Sirach 31:17–19
17 Be first to stop for manners’ sake. Don’t be insatiable, lest you offend. (WEB) 18 And if you sit among many, Don’t reach out your hand before them. (WEB) 19 How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little. He doesn’t breathe heavily in his bed. (WEB)
Sirach 18:31–33
31 If you give fully to your soul the delight of her desire, she will make you the laughing stock of your enemies. (WEB) 32 Don’t make merry in much luxury, and don’t be tied to its expense. (WEB) 33 Don’t be made a beggar by banqueting with borrowed money when you have nothing in… (WEB)
Sirach 26:10–12
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Sirach 40:28–30
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Sirach 42:11–13
11 Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter, lest she make you a laughingstock to your enemies, a byword in the city and notorious among the people, and shame you in public. (WEB) 12 Don’t gaze at every beautiful body. Don’t sit in the midst of women. (WEB) 13 For from garmen… (WEB)
Sirach 4:1–3
1 My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living. Don’t make the needy eyes wait long. (WEB) 2 Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful, or provoke a man in his distress. (WEB) 3 Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked. Don’t put off giving to him who is in need. (WEB)
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