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Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 14
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Chapter 14
True happiness
1
Happy the man who has not sinned in speech and who need feel no remorse for sins.
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Happy the man whose own soul does not accuse him, and who has never given up hope.
Envy and greed
3
Wealth is not the right thing for a niggardly man, and what use are possessions to a covetous one?
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A man who hoards by stinting himself is hoarding for others, and others will live sumptuously on his riches.
5
If a man is mean to himself, to whom will he be good? He does not even enjoy what is his own.
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No one is meaner than the man who is mean to himself, and this is how his wickedness pays him back.
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If he does good at all, he does it without intending to, and in the end he himself reveals his wickedness.
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Evil is the man who has a grudging eye, averting his face, and careless of others’ lives.
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The eye of the grasping man is not content with his portion, greed shrivels up the soul
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The miser is grudging of bread, there is famine at his table.
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My son, treat at yourself as well as you can afford and bring worthy offerings to the Lord.
12
Remember that death will not delay and that the covenant of Sheol[*a] has not been revealed to you.
13
Be kind to your friend before you die treat him as generously as you can afford.
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Do not refuse yourself the good things of today, do not let your share of what is lawfully desired pass you by.
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Will you not have to leave your fortune to another, and the fruit of your labour to be divided by lot?
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Then give and receive, and take your ease, for in Sheol you cannot look for pleasure.
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Every living thing grows old like a garment, the age-old law is ‘Death must be’.
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Like foliage growing on a bushy tree, some leaves falling, others growing, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies, another is born.
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Every achievement rots away and perishes, and with it goes its author.
The happiness of the sage
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Happy the man who meditates on wisdom, and reasons with good sense,
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who studies her ways in his heart, and ponders her secrets.
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He pursues her like a hunter, and lies in wait by her path;
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he peeps in at her windows, and listens at her doors;
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he lodges close to her house, and fixes his peg in her walls;
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he pitches his tent at her side, and lodges in an excellent lodging;
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he sets his children in her shade, and camps beneath her branches;
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he is sheltered by her from the heat, and in her glory he makes his home.
Chapters of Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
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