For Ben Sirach, there are two main attitudes toward money and material goods: greed or stinginess, and generosity or detachment. Simply observing, the miser does not even serve himself and thus cannot serve others; his life revolves around obsessively accumulating and possessing, ending sadly as everything is left in the hands of those who did nothing to earn it. Ben Sirach’s advice is to practice generosity: first, be generous to God (11), help others (13.16a), and naturally, enjoy and take pleasure in your possessions (11.14.16b). The core idea is that what we acquire in this life should be enjoyed during this life because, after death, there’s no need to seek pleasures in the Abyss.