“He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 21 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.