Proverbs 21:17 Cross References - LEB

¹⁷ A man of want is he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil* will not become rich.

¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, ¹¹ and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed,

²⁰ Precious treasure and oil are in the house of the wise, but the foolish person* will devour them.*

²¹ For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.

¹³ And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything and* went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth by* living wastefully. ¹⁴ And after* he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need. ¹⁵ And he went and* hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs. ¹⁶ And he was longing to fill his stomach with* the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything* to him.

²⁴ And he called out and* said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.

⁶ But the one who lives for sensual pleasure is dead even though she* lives.

⁴ traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,