Proverbs 21:17
Good News Translation
Indulging in luxuries, wine, and rich food will never make you wealthy.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Contemporary English Version
Heavy drinkers and others who live only for pleasure will lose all they have.

New American Bible
The lover of pleasure will suffer want; the lover of wine and perfume will never be rich.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.

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Proverbs 21:20 There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.

Proverbs 5:10,11 And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say; . . .

Proverbs 23:21 Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Luke 15:13-16 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously. . . .

Luke 16:24,25 And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. . . .

1 Timothy 5:6 For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:

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Context
The King's Heart
16A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants. 17He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.18The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:21
Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Proverbs 21:18
The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

Proverbs 21:16
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