Proverbs 21:17
“He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.”
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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Cross-References
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
“But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”
“Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;”
“And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.”
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;”