Sirach 29:22
Good News Translation
It is better to be poor and live under your own crude roof than to enjoy lavish banquets in other people's homes.

New Revised Standard Version
Better is the life of the poor under their own crude roof than sumptuous food in the house of others.

Contemporary English Version
It is better to be poor in your own home, than to live with others and be treated to banquets.

New American Bible
Better is the life of the poor under the shadow of their own roof than sumptuous banquets among strangers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.

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A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.

Sirach 29:20
The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.

Sirach 29:21
A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him.

Sirach 29:23
Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

Sirach 29:24
It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.

Context
Sirach 29
21A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him. 22A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him. 23Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.…
Cross References
Sirach 29:20
The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.

Sirach 29:21
A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him.

Sirach 29:23
Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

Sirach 29:24
It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 29:21
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