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

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17 Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
    whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.(A)

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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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20 Do not join those who drink too much wine(A)
    or gorge themselves on meat,
21 for drunkards and gluttons become poor,(B)
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency

16 If you find honey, eat just enough—
    too much of it, and you will vomit.(A)

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A satisfied [a]person [b]despises honey,
But to a hungry [c]person 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

One who is full loathes honey from the comb,
    but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

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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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A discerning son heeds instruction,
    but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.(A)

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