17 He who (A)loves pleasure will become a poor man;
He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

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20 Do not be with (A)heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with (B)gluttonous eaters of meat;
21 For the (C)heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And (D)drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

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16 Have you (A)found honey? Eat only [a]what you need,
That you not have it in excess and vomit it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency

A sated [a]man [b]loathes honey,
But to a famished [c]man any bitter thing is sweet.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:7 Lit soul
  2. Proverbs 27:7 Lit tramples on
  3. Proverbs 27:7 Lit soul

He who keeps the law is a discerning son,
But he who is a companion of (A)gluttons humiliates his father.

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