Proverbs 21:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

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The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

For 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.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;