Ecclesiasticus 40:30
The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vir respiciens in mensam alienam, non est vita ejus in cogitatione victus : alit enim animam suam cibis alienis :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Meat. Such is the condition of the parasite, (Calmet) and of the beggar. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.