3 Wealth is not appropriate for the mean-spirited;to misers, what use is gold?
4 What they deny themselves they collect for someone else,and strangers will live sumptuously on their possessions.
5 To whom will they be generous that are stingy with themselvesand do not enjoy what is their own?
6 None are worse than those who are stingy with themselves;they punish their own avarice.
7 If ever they do good, it is by mistake;in the end they reveal their meanness.
8 Misers are evil people,they turn away and disregard others.
9 The greedy see their share as not enough;greedy injustice dries up the soul.