Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation How can you be generous with others if you are stingy with yourself, if you are not willing to enjoy your own wealth? New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his goods. Sirach 14:3Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? Sirach 14:4 He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting. Sirach 14:6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness: Sirach 14:7 And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at the last he discovereth his wickedness. Context Sirach 14…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. 6There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness:… Cross References Sirach 14:3 Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? Sirach 14:4 He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting. Sirach 14:6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness: Sirach 14:7 And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at the last he discovereth his wickedness. |
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