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What? Have ye not houses? (Mē gar oikias ouk echete̱) The double negative (mē̇̇ouk) in the single question is like the idiom in 1Co 9:4. which see. Mē expects a negative answer while ouk negatives the verb echete. “For do you fail to have houses?” Paul is not approving gluttony and drunkenness but only expressing horror at their sacrilege (despising, kataphroneite) of the church of God.
That have not (tous mē echontas). Not those without houses, but those who have nothing, “the have-nots” (Findlay) like 2Co 8:12, in contrast with hoi echontes “the haves” (the men of property).
What shall I say to you? (ti eipō humiṉ) Deliberative subjunctive that well expresses Paul’s bewilderment.