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Proverbs 21:17

He who loves [only selfish] pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves and is devoted to wine and [olive] oil will not become rich.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amusements and Worldly Pleasures;   Drunkenness;   Extravagance;   Food;   Frugality;   Oil;   Pleasure;   Wine;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Drink, Strong;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Intemperance;   Pleasure, Worldly;   Pleasure-Seekers;   Poverty;   Poverty-Riches;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   Victuals;   Wine;   Worldly;   The Topic Concordance - Pleasure;   Poverty;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amusements and Pleasures, Worldly;   Diet of the Jews, the;   Drunkenness;   Oil;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Oil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Drunkenness;   Education;   Oil;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Poor;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He who loves pleasure will become a poor man;He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who loves pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that hath pleasure in bankettes shalbe a poore man: and whoso delighteth in wyne and delicates, shall not be riche.
Darby Translation
He that loveth mirth shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
New King James Version
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Literal Translation
A man who loves pleasure shall be poor, he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
Easy-to-Read Version
Loving pleasure leads to poverty. Wine and luxury will never make you wealthy.
World English Bible
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man: He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
King James Version (1611)
He that loueth pleasure, shall be a poore man: hee that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be rich.
King James Version
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He yt hath pleasure in banckettes, shal be a poore man: Who so delyteth in wyne and delicates, shal not be riche.
THE MESSAGE
You're addicted to thrills? What an empty life! The pursuit of pleasure is never satisfied.
American Standard Version
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Bible in Basic English
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Update Bible Version
He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
New English Translation
The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.
Contemporary English Version
Heavy drinkers and others who live only for pleasure will lose all they have.
Complete Jewish Bible
Pleasure-lovers will suffer want; he who loves wine and oil won't get rich.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee that loueth pastime, shalbe a poore man: and he that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be riche.
George Lamsa Translation
He who lacks wealth and yet loves entertainment, wine, and pleasure shall not be rich.
Hebrew Names Version
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man: He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
New Living Translation
Those who love pleasure become poor; those who love wine and luxury will never be rich.
New Life Bible
He who loves only fun will become a poor man. He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A poor man loves mirth, loving wine and oil in abundance;
English Revised Version
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Berean Standard Bible
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never become rich.
New Revised Standard
Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A needy man, shall he be that loveth merriment, the lover of wine and oil, shall not become rich.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.
Lexham English Bible
A man of want is he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
English Standard Version
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
New American Standard Bible
One who loves pleasure will become a poor person; One who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
New Century Version
Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and perfume will never be rich.
Good News Translation
Indulging in luxuries, wine, and rich food will never make you wealthy.
Christian Standard Bible®
The one who loves pleasure will become a poor man; whoever loves wine and oil will not get rich.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that loueth metis, schal be in nedynesse; he that loueth wiyn and fatte thingis, schal not be maad riche.
Revised Standard Version
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso [is] loving mirth [is] a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

Contextual Overview

17He who loves [only selfish] pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves and is devoted to wine and [olive] oil will not become rich.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loveth: Proverbs 21:20, Proverbs 5:10, Proverbs 5:11, Proverbs 23:21, Luke 15:13-16, Luke 16:24, Luke 16:25, 1 Timothy 5:6, 2 Timothy 3:4

pleasure: Heb. sport

Reciprocal: Proverbs 29:3 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; Your reward [for obedience] shall be very great."
Genesis 16:9
The Angel of the LORD said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit humbly to her authority."
Genesis 16:11
The Angel of the LORD continued, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall name him Ishmael (God hears), Because the LORD has heard and paid attention to your persecution (suffering).
Genesis 21:1
The LORD graciously remembered and visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for her as He had promised.
Genesis 21:2
So Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis 21:4
So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh; all who hear [about our good news] will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:13
"And I will also make a nation of [Ishmael] the son of the maid, because he is your descendant."
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 46:3
And He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you (your descendants) a great nation there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man,.... Or "sport" c and pastime, music and dancing, cards and dice, hunting and hawking, and other sensual gratifications; a man that indulges himself in these things, and spends his time and his money in such a way, is very likely to be a poor man, and generally is so in the issue;

he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich; that is, that loves them immoderately; otherwise in moderation they may be both loved and used; "wine" and "oil" are put for high living, luxurious feasts, costly entertainments; which being so, and continually made, will not suffer a man to be rich. The sense is, that an epicure, one that makes a god of his belly, that is both a winebibber and a glutton, that indulges to rich eating and drinking, in course lessens his substance, and leaves little for his heir: and this holds good with respect to spiritual as to temporal things; such persons are poor, and not rich in spiritual things, that indulge to carnal pleasure, and the gratification of their sensual appetite.

c שמחה "laetitiam", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wine and oil - i. e., The costly adjuncts of a princely banquet. The price of oil or precious unguent was about equal to the 300 days’ wages of a field laborer Matthew 20:2. Indulgence in such a luxury would thus become the type of all extravagance and excess.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 21:17. He that loveth pleasure — That follows gaming, fowling, hunting, coursing, c., when he should be attending to the culture of the fields, shall be a poor man and, I may safely add, shall be so deservedly poor, as to have none to pity him.


 
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