Sirach 40:31DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 31 of 32
"But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself."
In context
29My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.
30The 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.
31But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.
32Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.