Wealth.  Sir.14.3-19

³Riches are not seemly for a stingy man;
and of what use is property to an envious man?
⁴Whoever accumulates by depriving himself, accumulates for others;
and others will live in luxury on his goods.
⁵If a man is mean to himself, to whom will he be generous?
He will not enjoy his own riches.
⁶No one is meaner than the man who is grudging to himself,
and this is the retribution for his baseness;
⁷even if he does good, he does it unintentionally,
and betrays his baseness in the end.
⁸Evil is the man with a grudging eye;
he averts his face and disregards people.
⁹A greedy man's eye is not satisfied with a portion,
and mean injustice withers the soul.
¹⁰A stingy man's eye begrudges bread,
and it is lacking at his table.

¹¹My son, treat yourself well, according to your means,
and present worthy offerings to the Lord.
¹²Remember that death will not delay,
and the decree of Hades has not been shown to you.
¹³Do good to a friend before you die,
and reach out and give to him as much as you can.
¹⁴Do not deprive yourself of a happy day;
let not your share of desired good pass by you.
¹⁵Will you not leave the fruit of your labours to another,
and what you acquired by toil to be divided by lot?
¹⁶Give, and take, and beguile yourself,
because in Hades one cannot look for luxury.
¹⁷All living beings become old like a garment,
for the decree from of old is, "You must surely die!"
¹⁸Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree
which sheds some and puts forth others,
so are the generations of flesh and blood:
one dies and another is born.
¹⁹Every product decays and ceases to exist,
and the man who made it will pass away with it.

Wisdom.  Sir.14.20-15.10

²⁰Blessed is the man who meditates on wisdom
and who reasons intelligently.
²¹He who reflects in his mind on her ways
will also ponder her secrets.
²²Pursue wisdom like a hunter,
and lie in wait on her paths.
²³He who peers through her windows
will also listen at her doors;
²⁴he who encamps near her house
will also fasten his tent peg to her walls;
²⁵he will pitch his tent near her,
and will lodge in an excellent lodging place;
²⁶he will place his children under her shelter,
and will camp under her boughs;
²⁷he will be sheltered by her from the heat,
and will dwell in the midst of her glory.