Venerable Bede: Are you self-indulgent or do you support the poor?

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I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labors. Ecclesiastes 2:10

“They nourish their hearts in self-indulgence who, according to the word of Ecclesiastes, do not prevent their heart from enjoying every wish and from delighting itself in the things which they have prepared. And they count it their due if they themselves make use of their own labors, having no care for the support and solace of the poor.”

Venerable Bede (c. 672-735) in Commentary on James 5:5.