Proverbs 21:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Those who love pleasure end up poor; lovers of wine and oil won’t get rich.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Whoever loves a feast will be in deprivation. Whoever loves wine and fatness will not be enriched.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.

Proverbs 21:17 Cross References

Proverbs 21:18

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous and the faithless for the upright.

Proverbs 21:20

Precious treasure remains in the house of the wise, but the fool devours it.

Proverbs 23:20

Do not be among winebibbers or among gluttonous eaters of meat,

Proverbs 23:21

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

1 Timothy 5:6

but the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,