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Sirach 20:14-16
Common English Bible
Sirach 20:14-16
Common English Bible
14 Gifts from senseless people
won’t profit you,[a]
because they look for a lot
rather than a little in return.[b]
15 They will give a little and reproach a lot,
and they will open their mouths
like a town crier.
Today they will lend
and tomorrow ask for it back;
such people are hateful.
16 Fools say, “I don’t have a friend,
and there’s no gratitude
for my good deeds.”
Those who eat the bread of such people
have mean tongues.
Footnotes
- Sirach 20:14 LXXb adds and neither will the gift of a grudging person who’s forced to give.
- Sirach 20:14 LXX for their eyes are many rather than one
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