Proverbs 21:17

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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The wicked serve as ransom for the just, and the faithless for the upright.

Precious treasure and oil are in the house of the wise, but the fool consumes them.

Do not join with wine bibbers, nor with those who glut themselves on meat.

For drunkards and gluttons come to poverty, and lazing about clothes one in rags.

But the one who is self-indulgent is dead while she lives.

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,