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

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17 Those who love pleasure become poor;
    those who love wine and luxury will never be rich.

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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.

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20 Do not carouse with drunkards
    or feast with gluttons,
21 for they are on their way to poverty,
    and too much sleep clothes them in rags.

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

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16 Do you like honey?
    Don’t eat too much, or it will make you sick!

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

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A person who is full refuses honey,
    but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.

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

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Young people who obey the law are wise;
    those with wild friends bring shame to their parents.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 28:7 Hebrew their father.