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 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man:
He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

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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 Be not among winebibbers,
Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;
And drowsiness will clothe a man with 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 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

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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

The full soul [a]loatheth a honeycomb;
But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:7 Hebrew trampleth upon.

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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Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son;
But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.

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