Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
World English Bible British
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
18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man swallows it up.
Proverbs 23:21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Luke 16:24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
2 Timothy 3:4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of 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 →