20. Help your neighbor according to your means,but take care lest you fall yourself.
21. Life’s prime needs are water, bread, and clothing,and also a house for decent privacy.
22. Better is the life of the poor under the shadow of their own roofthan sumptuous banquets among strangers.
23. Whether little or much, be content with what you have:then you will hear no reproach as a parasite.
24. It is a miserable life to go from house to house,for where you are a guest you dare not open your mouth.
25. You will entertain and provide drink without being thanked;besides, you will hear these bitter words:
26. “Come here, you parasite, set the table,let me eat the food you have there!
27. Go away, you parasite, for one more worthy;for my relative’s visit I need the room!”
28. Painful things to a sensitive personare rebuke as a parasite and insults from creditors.