Sirach 20:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁵ He gives little and upbraids much;
    he opens his mouth like a town crier.
Today he lends and tomorrow he asks it back;
    such a one is hateful to God and humans.^[a]
16 The fool says, “I have no friends,
    and I get no thanks for my good deeds.
    Those who eat my bread are evil-tongued.”
¹⁷ How many will ridicule him, and how often!^[b]