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11 His prosperity will be established,[a]
    and the assembly will proclaim his acts of charity.

Table Etiquette

12 Are you seated at the table of the great?[b]
    Do not be greedy at it,
    and do not say, “How much food there is here!”
13 Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing.
    What has been created more greedy than the eye?
    Therefore it sheds tears for any reason.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 31:11 Other ancient authorities add because of this
  2. Sirach 31:12 Heb Syr: Gk at a great table

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