Proverbs 21:17
Expanded Bible
17 Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
whoever loves wine and ·perfume [oil] will never be rich.
Proverbs 21:17
Amplified Bible
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.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:17 I.e. items associated with lavish feasting and excessive luxury.
Proverbs 23:20-21
Expanded Bible
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.
Proverbs 23:20-21
Amplified Bible
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.
Proverbs 25:16
Expanded Bible
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.
Proverbs 25:16
Amplified Bible
16
Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need,
Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.
Proverbs 27:7
Expanded Bible
7 When you are ·full [sated], not even honey tastes good,
but when you are hungry, even something bitter tastes sweet.
Proverbs 27:7
Amplified Bible
7
He who is satisfied loathes honey,
But to the hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs 28:7
Expanded Bible
7 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].
Proverbs 28:7
Amplified Bible
7
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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