17 The one who loves pleasure will become a poor man;
whoever loves wine and oil will not get rich.(A)

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17 Pleasure lovers become poor;
    loving wine and oil doesn’t bring riches.

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20 Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine(A)
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.(B)
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,
and grogginess will clothe them in rags.(C)

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20 Don’t associate with heavy drinkers
    or dine with gluttons,
21 because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor,
    and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

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16 If you find honey,(A) eat only what you need;
otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit.(B)

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16 If you find some honey,
    eat only what you need.
Take too much,
    and you’ll vomit.

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A person who is full tramples on a honeycomb,(A)
but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet.

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The person[a] who is full spurns honey,
    but to a hungry person even the bitter seems sweet.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:7 Lit. soul

A discerning son keeps the law,
but a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.(A)

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Whoever keeps the Law is a discerning son,
    but whoever keeps company with gluttons
        brings shame to his father.

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