Wealth ill becomes the mean man; and to the miser, of what use is
gold? What he denies himself he collects for others, and in his possessions a
stranger will revel. To whom will he be generious who is stingy with himself and
does not enjoy what is his own? None is more stingy than he who is stingy with
himself; he punishes his own miserliness. If ever he is generous, it is by
mistake; and in the end he displays his greed. In the miser’s opinion his share
is too small; he refuses his neighbor and brings ruins on himself. The miser’s
eye is rapacious for bread but on his own table he sets it stale. The word of the LORD. Thanks be to God.
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