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Ecclesiasticus 40:27-32 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

27. There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help.

28. The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.

29. My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.

30. The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat.

31. But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.

32. Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

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