Proverbs 21:17
If you love pleasure you'll become poor; if you love wine and olive oil you won't ever be rich.
Free Bible Version
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
16Anyone who wanders away from the path of understanding ends up with the dead.
18The wicked pay the price and not the good; those who are deceitful and not those who live right.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:20The wise hold on to their wealth and olive oil, but stupid people use up everything they have.
Proverbs 23:21For people who get drunk and overeat lose all they've got, and they spend so much time dozing that all they have left to wear is rags.
Luke 16:24‘Father Abraham,’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I'm burning in agony.’
2 Timothy 3:4they will betray others and be totally thoughtless. They are absurdly full of themselves, living so much for pleasure that they don't care about loving 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 →