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17 Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
whoever loves wine and ·perfume [oil] will never be rich.

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17 
He who loves [only selfish] pleasure will become a poor man;
He who loves and is devoted to [a]wine and [olive] oil will not become rich.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:17 I.e. items associated with lavish feasting and excessive luxury.

17 Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
    whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.(A)

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20 Don’t ·drink too much [get drunk on] wine
    or ·eat too much food [L stuff yourself with meat].
21 Those who ·drink [get drunk] and ·eat too much [stuff themselves] ·become poor [lose possessions].
    They ·sleep too much [or are in a stupor] and end up wearing rags.

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20 
Do not associate with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat,(A)
21 
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And the drowsiness [of overindulgence] will clothe one with rags.

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20 Do not join those who drink too much wine(A)
    or gorge themselves on meat,
21 for drunkards and gluttons become poor,(B)
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

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16 If you find honey, ·don’t eat too much [eat the right amount],
    or it will make you full and you will throw up.

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16 
Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need,
Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.

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16 If you find honey, eat just enough—
    too much of it, and you will vomit.(A)

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When you are ·full [sated], not even honey tastes good,
but when you are hungry, even something bitter tastes sweet.

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He who is satisfied loathes honey,
But to the hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet.

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One who is full loathes honey from the comb,
    but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

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Children who ·obey what they have been taught [protect instruction/law] are wise,
but friends of ·troublemakers [or gluttons] disgrace their parents [Deut. 28:18–21].

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He who keeps the law [of God and man] is a wise and discerning son,
But he who is a companion of gluttons humiliates his father [and himself].

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A discerning son heeds instruction,
    but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.(A)

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