Sirach 31:17
Good News Translation
It's good manners to be the first to stop eating; stuffing yourself is offensive.

New Revised Standard Version
Be the first to stop, as befits good manners, and do not be insatiable, or you will give offense.

Contemporary English Version
Show good manners; stop eating before others do. If you keep on eating, they will be offended.

New American Bible
Be the first to stop, as befits good manners; and do not gorge yourself, lest you give offense.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not hasty in a feast.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not hasty in a feast.

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

Sirach 31:16
Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion.

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

Sirach 31:19
Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated.

Context
Sirach 31
16Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion. 17Be not hasty in a feast. 18Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself.…
Cross References
Sirach 31:15
What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep over all the face when it shall see.

Sirach 31:16
Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion.

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

Sirach 31:19
Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated.



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Sirach 31:16
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