Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you deny yourself in order to accumulate wealth, you are only accumulating it for someone else. Others will use your riches to live in luxury. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting. Sirach 14:2Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not fallen from his hope. Sirach 14:3 Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? Sirach 14:5 He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his goods. Sirach 14:6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness: Context Sirach 14…3Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? 4He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting. 5He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his goods.… Cross References Sirach 14:2 Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not fallen from his hope. Sirach 14:3 Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? Sirach 14:5 He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his goods. Sirach 14:6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness: |
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