Sirach 29:27-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁷‘Be off, stranger, for an honoured guest is here;
my brother has come for a visit, and I need the guest-room.’
²⁸It is hard for a sensitive person to bear
scolding about lodging^[a] and the insults of the moneylender.

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Sirach 29:28 Or scolding from the household

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