29 ²¹ The essentials for life are water and bread
and clothing and a house to cover one's nakedness.
29 ²² Better is the life of a poor man under the shelter of his roof
than sumptuous food in another man's house.
29 ²³ Be content with little or much.
29 ²⁴ It is a miserable life to go from house to house,
and where you are a stranger you may not open your mouth;
29 ²⁵ you will play the host and provide drink without being thanked,
and besides this you will hear bitter words:
29 ²⁶ "Come here, stranger, prepare the table,
and if you have anything at hand, let me have it to eat."
29 ²⁷ "Give place, stranger, to an honoured person;
my brother has come to stay with me;
I need my house."
29 ²⁸ These things are hard to bear for a man who has feeling:
scolding about lodging and the reproach of the moneylender.