SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:17
¶ Hombre necesitado será el que ama el deleite; y el que ama el vino y el ungí¼ento no enriquecerá.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:17
Verse 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man , etc.] Or “sport” 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17 - A life of worldly pleasure brings ruin on men.
Original Hebrew
אישׁ 376 מחסור 4270 אהב 157 שׂמחה 8057 אהב 157 יין 3196 ושׁמן 8081 לא 3808 יעשׁיר׃ 6238
