A stingy man’s eye begrudges bread, and it is lacking at his table: Good News Translation is good here. Other possibilities are “There are people so stingy that they will not put food on their own table” and “… that they will not even give their families enough food to eat” (similarly Contemporary English Version). Bread here refers to food in general (see 12.5).

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Sirach. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2008. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.