Verse 21
Proverbs 23:21
English Revised Version
21
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּי סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭/זוֹלֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ וּ֝/קְרָעִ֗ים תַּלְבִּ֥ישׁ נוּמָֽה
English Translation
For a glutton and a drunkard will inherit, and rags will clothe the lazy.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently him that is before thee;
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And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful meat.
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Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an...
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:
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For as he reckoneth within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not...
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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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9
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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10
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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For their redeemer is strong; he shall plead their cause against thee.
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Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
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My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall be glad, even mine:
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Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long:
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For surely there is a reward; and thy hope shall not be cut off.
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Buy the truth, and sell it not; yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy...
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Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her that bare thee rejoice.
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My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.
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For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath complaining? who hath wounds without c...
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They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek out mixed wine.
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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it goeth down...
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thine heart shall utter froward things.
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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top o...
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They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: w...
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