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17 Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
whoever loves wine and ·perfume [oil] will never be rich.

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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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20 Don’t ·drink too much [get drunk on] wine
    or ·eat too much food [L stuff yourself with meat].
21 Those who ·drink [get drunk] and ·eat too much [stuff themselves] ·become poor [lose possessions].
    They ·sleep too much [or are in a stupor] and end up wearing rags.

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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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16 If you find honey, ·don’t eat too much [eat the right amount],
    or it will make you full and you will throw up.

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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

When you are ·full [sated], not even honey tastes good,
but when you are hungry, even something bitter tastes sweet.

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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

Children who ·obey what they have been taught [protect instruction/law] are wise,
but friends of ·troublemakers [or gluttons] disgrace their parents [Deut. 28:18–21].

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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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