Sirach 31:11-13

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹¹ His prosperity will be established,
    and the assembly will relate his acts of charity.

¹² Are you seated at the table of a great man?^[a]
    Do not be greedy^[b] at it,
    and do not say, “There is certainly much upon it!”
¹³ Remember that a greedy^[c] eye is a bad thing.
    What has been created more greedy^[d] than the eye?
    Therefore it sheds tears from every face.