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

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