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Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 29:25-28 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

25. You welcome the guests and pour the drinks, and nobody thanks you. Instead, people humiliate you by saying things like:

26. “Stranger! Come here and lay the table! I want to eat what you've got there! Give it here!

27. Go away, stranger! I've got an important guest! My brother is coming to visit, and I need the room!”

28. Being denied hospitality or having a moneylender hound you — these are hard things for any sensitive person to endure.

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