Sirach 18:33
Good News Translation
Don't make yourself a beggar by borrowing for expensive banquets when you don't have enough money of your own.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not become a beggar by feasting with borrowed money, when you have nothing in your purse.

Contemporary English Version
If you have nothing, don't borrow money to give a banquet.

New American Bible
Do not become a glutton and a drunkard with nothing in your purse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.

Sirach 18:31
If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.

Sirach 18:32
Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual.

Sirach 19:1
A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.

Sirach 19:2
Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:

Context
Sirach 18
32Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual. 33Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.
Cross References
Sirach 18:31
If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.

Sirach 18:32
Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual.

Sirach 19:1
A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.

Sirach 19:2
Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 18:32
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