Sirach 31:16
Good News Translation
When you get your food, eat it like a human being. Don't smack and slurp; nobody can stand that.

New Revised Standard Version
Eat what is set before you like a well brought-up person, and do not chew greedily, or you will give offense.

Contemporary English Version
Eat what is served, but you won't be welcome if you gobble it up like an animal.

New American Bible
Eat, like anyone else, what is set before you, but do not eat greedily, lest you be despised.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion.

Sirach 31:14
Remember that a wicked eye is evil.

Sirach 31:15
What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep over all the face when it shall see.

Sirach 31:17
Be not hasty in a feast.

Sirach 31:18
Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself.

Context
Sirach 31
15What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep over all the face when it shall see. 16Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion. 17Be not hasty in a feast.…
Cross References
Sirach 31:14
Remember that a wicked eye is evil.

Sirach 31:15
What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep over all the face when it shall see.

Sirach 31:17
Be not hasty in a feast.

Sirach 31:18
Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 31:15
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