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Proverbios 21:17

Hombre necesitado será el que ama el deleite; y el que ama el vino y el ungüento no enriquecerá.

Bible Study Resources

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

La Biblia de las Americas
El que ama el placer será pobre; el que ama el vino y los ungüentos no se enriquecerá.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Hombre necesitado será el que ama el deleite: Y el que ama el vino y ungüentos no enriquecerá.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Hombre necesitado será el que ama el placer; y el que ama el vino y los perfumes no enriquecerá.

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

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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