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17 Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want;
    whoever loves wine and oil will not 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 Do not be among winebibbers
    or among gluttonous eaters of meat,(A)
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.(B)

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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 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you,
    lest, having too much, you vomit it up.(A)

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

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The sated appetite spurns honey,
    but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.(A)

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

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Those who keep the law are wise children,
    but companions of gluttons shame their parents.(A)

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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.