Proverbs 21:17

Tree of Life Version

Whoever loves pleasure becomes poor. Whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.

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

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise person’s dwelling, but a foolish person devours all he has.

Do not join those drinking too much wine or gorging on meat,

for both drunkards and gluttons will be impoverished— grogginess will clothe them with rags.

But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

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