Verse 17

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

Referenced Verses

• Prov 23:21 : 21 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.
• Prov 21:20 : 20 There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
• Prov 5:10-11 : 10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
• Luke 15:13-16 : 13 And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living. 14 And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need. 15 And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food. 16 And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
• Luke 16:24-25 : 24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
• 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
• 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;