Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
In Context
16The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:20There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
Proverbs 23:21For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
Luke 16:24And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
2 Timothy 3:4False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:17
16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Here is, 1. The sinner upon his ramble: He wanders out of the way of understanding, and when once he has left that good way he wanders endlessly. The way of religion is the way of understanding; those that are not truly pious are not truly intelligent; those that wander out of this way break the hedge which God has set, and follow the conduct of the world and the flesh; and they go astray like lost sheep. 2. The… Read the whole commentary →