Ecclesiasticus 40:29-32 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

29. My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.

30. The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat.

31. But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.

32. Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

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