Sirach 31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Sirach 31Right Attitude toward Riches

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3 by it.

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and the assembly will proclaim their acts of charity.

Table Etiquette

12 Are you seated at the table of the great?

Do not be greedy at it,

and do not say, “How much food there is here!”

13 at the dish.

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and do not chew greedily, or you will be despised.

17Be the first to stop, as befits good manners,

and do not be insatiable, or you will give offense.

18 before they do.

19How ample a little is for the well-disciplined!

They do not breathe heavily when in bed.

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and no sickness will overtake you.

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so wine tests hearts when the insolent quarrel.

27 Ps 104.15; Sir 40.20; 1 Esd 3.19; 1 Tim 5.23 Wine is very life to humans

if taken in moderation.

What is life to one who is without wine?

It has been created to make people happy.

28 Eccl 10.17 Wine drunk at the proper time and in moderation

is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.

29 Prov 20.1 Wine drunk to excess leads to bitterness of spirit,

to quarrels and stumbling.

30 Prov 20.1 Drunkenness increases the anger of fools to their own hurt,

reducing their strength and adding wounds.

31 Sir 29.28 Do not reprove your neighbors at a banquet of wine,

and do not despise them in their merrymaking;

speak no word of reproach to them,

and do not distress them by making demands of them.