40:28. The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.
40:29. My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.
40:30. The 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.
40:31. But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.
40:32. Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.
Ecclesiasticus Chapter 41
Of the remembrance of death: of an evil and of a good name: of what things we ought to be ashamed.
41:1. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!
41:2. To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!
41:3. O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: