OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 14:3

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Riches are not appropriate for a stingy person. What would a miser do with money?

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Verse 3. Envious. Who will neither use his wealth himself, nor bestow it. The true use of riches is to take a sufficiency, and to relieve the poor. Calmet.

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