Sirach 31:12
Good News Translation
When you sit down at a fancy banquet, don't let your mouth hang open, and don't say, "Look at all that food!"

New Revised Standard Version
Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “How much food there is here!”

Contemporary English Version
When you go to a banquet, don't stuff yourself just because so much food is on the table.

New American Bible
Are you seated at the table of the great? Bring to it no greedy gullet, Nor say, “How much food there is here!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it.

Sirach 31:10
Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them:

Sirach 31:11
Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.

Sirach 31:13
Say not: There are many things which are upon it.

Sirach 31:14
Remember that a wicked eye is evil.

Context
Sirach 31
11Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms. 12Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it. 13Say not: There are many things which are upon it.…
Cross References
Sirach 31:10
Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them:

Sirach 31:11
Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.

Sirach 31:13
Say not: There are many things which are upon it.

Sirach 31:14
Remember that a wicked eye is evil.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 31:11
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