Sirach 31:12-19

1. 12 If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and say not, There is much meat on it.

2. 13 Remember that a wicked eye is an evil thing: and what is created more wicked than an eye? therefore it weepeth upon every occasion.

3. 14 Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust it not with him into the dish.

4. 15 Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every point.

5. 16 Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; and devour note, lest thou be hated.

6. 17 Leave off first for manners' sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.

7. 18 When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.

8. 19 A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

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