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 Those who love pleasure end up poor;
    lovers of wine and oil won’t get 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 Don’t hang out with those who get drunk on wine
    or those who eat too much meat,
21     because drunks and gluttons will be impoverished;
    their stupor will clothe 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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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency

16 If you find honey, eat just the right amount;
    otherwise, you’ll get full and vomit it up.

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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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Notas al pie

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

Someone who is full refuses honey,
    but anything bitter tastes sweet to a hungry person.

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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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Intelligent children follow Instruction,
    but those who befriend gluttons shame their parents.

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