27 The primary need in a man's life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to protect modesty.
28 A pauper's food under a roof of boards is better than a splendid feast on a sojourn away from home.
29 Let yourself be pleased with little instead of much, and you will not hear the reproach of being away from home.
30 It is a wicked life to go from house to house as a guest. For wherever he is a guest, he will not act confidently, nor open his mouth.
31 He will entertain, and feed, and give drink to the ungrateful, and beyond this, he will listen to bitter words:
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