17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 29

And do not make your hand stingy by holding it to your neck, nor shall you lay it fully open so you become in despair and regret.

You should not keep your hand chained to your neck in stinginess, nor open it foolishly lest you sit down destitute and denuded.

And make thou not thy hand chained to thy neck; nor extend thou it to its full extent, then sit down blameworthy and denuded.

And do not make your hand stingy by holding it to your neck, nor shall you lay it fully open so you become in despair and regret.

Do not make your hand stingy by holding it to your neck, nor shall you make it fully open so you become in despair and regret.

Do not keep your hand chained to your neck but do not extend it either to its full extent so that you sit there blamed and destitute.

You shall not keep your hand stingily tied to your neck, nor shall you foolishly open it up, lest you end up blamed and sorry.

Do not be niggardly, nor extravagant that you may later feel reprehensive and constrained.

And do not make your hand [as] chained to your neck or extend it completely and [thereby] become blamed and insolvent.

And neither allow thy hand to remain shackled to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to the utmost limit [of thy capacity], lest thou find thyself blamed [by thy dependants], or even destitute.

And let not thy hand be chained to thy neck nor open it with a complete opening, lest thou sit down rebuked, denuded.

And do not bind your hand to your neck, as it were, unwilling to give or spend anything, nor should you spread it in the "spread-eagle style", lest you sit brooding on the vast abyss of reprimand and woeful want.

You shall not be stingy. You shall not be extravagant either as you will be blamed once you end up in poverty.

And let not your hand be tied (like a miser) to your neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach (like a spendthrift), so that you become blameworthy and in severe poverty.

Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard's) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach, so that thou become blameworthy and destitute.

Do not be so tight-fisted, for you will be blameworthy; nor so open-handed, for you will end up in poverty.

And do not keep your hand tied to your neck, nor extend it to the full extent, lest you should be sitting reproached, empty-handed.

Do not be tight-fisted, nor so open-handed that you end up blamed and overwhelmed with regret.

And keep not thy hand chained to thy neck, nor outspread it widespread altogether, or thou wilt sit reproached and denuded.

Make not thy hand fettered to thy neck, nor yet spread it out quite open, lest thou shouldst have to sit down blamed and straitened in means.

Let not your hand be fettered to your neck (i. e. selfish and tight fisted), nor yet spread it out quite open, lest you should have to sit down blamed and destitute.

And do not set up your hand shackled to your neck, (i. e., Do not be niggardly) nor outspread it widespread altogether, (Literally: outspread it all outspreading, i.e., do not be a spendthrift) for then you will sit blamed and regretfully rejected.

And let not thy hand be tied up to thy neck; neither open it with an unbounded expansion, lest thou become worthy of reprehension, and be reduced to poverty.

And do not make your hand tied to your neck, (like a miser), nor push it out to its longest reach, so that you become worthy of blame and being penniless.

And do not keep your hand shackled to your neck (out of miserliness), nor stretch it out to an entire stretching (extravagantly), lest you sit down reproached (incurring blame) and exhausted (on becoming penniless).

Do not keep your hand chained to your neck, nor open it altogether, or you will sit blameworthy, regretful.