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

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17 A man of want is he who loves pleasure;
    he who loves wine and oil[a] will not become rich.

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  1. Proverbs 21:17 Or “fat”

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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20 Do not be among drinkers of wine,
    among gluttonous eaters of their meat.[a]
21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,
    and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.

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  1. Proverbs 23:20 Literally “meat for them”

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

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16 If you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you,
    lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.

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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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  1. Proverbs 27:7 Lit. soul

An appetite[a] that is sated spurns honey,
    but to an appetite[b] that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.

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  1. Proverbs 27:7 Literally “soul”
  2. Proverbs 27:7 Literally “soul”

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

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He who keeps instruction is a child of understanding,
    but the companion of gluttons will shame his father.

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