Proverbs 21:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Proverbs 21:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Proverbs 5:10-11
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; …
Luke 15:13-16
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17)

Here is an argument against a voluptuous luxurious life, taken from the ruin it brings upon men’s temporal interests. Here is 1. The description of an epicure: He loves pleasure. God allows us to use the delights of sense soberly and temperately, wine to make glad the heart and put vigour into the spirits, and oil to make the face to shine and beautify the countenance; but he that loves these, tha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Costly luxuries impoverish.