Add parallel Print Page Options

17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man.
    He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,
    or those who gorge themselves on meat:
21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

16 Have you found honey?
    Eat as much as is sufficient for you,
    lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency

A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
    but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

Read full chapter

A satisfied [a]person [b]despises honey,
But to a hungry [c]person any bitter thing is sweet.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:7 Lit soul
  2. Proverbs 27:7 Lit tramples on
  3. Proverbs 27:7 Lit soul

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son;
    but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Read full chapter

He who keeps the Law is a discerning son,
But he who is a companion of (A)gluttons humiliates his father.

Read full chapter