Sirach 18:32
Good News Translation
Don't indulge in luxurious living; the expense of it will ruin you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not revel in great luxury, or you may become impoverished by its expense.

Contemporary English Version
Do not live in luxury that you cannot afford, or you will become poor.

New American Bible
Take no pleasure in too much luxury which brings on poverty redoubled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual.

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Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual.

Sirach 18:30
Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will.

Sirach 18:31
If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.

Sirach 18:33
Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.

Sirach 19:1
A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.

Context
Sirach 18
31If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies. 32Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual. 33Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.…
Cross References
Sirach 18:30
Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will.

Sirach 18:31
If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.

Sirach 18:33
Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.

Sirach 19:1
A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 18:31
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