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17 Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want;
    whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.

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20 Do not be among winebibbers
    or among gluttonous eaters of meat,(A)
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.(B)

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16 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you,
    lest, having too much, you vomit it up.(A)

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The sated appetite spurns honey,
    but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.(A)

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Those who keep the law are wise children,
    but companions of gluttons shame their parents.(A)

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