Proverbs 21:17 (BSB)

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:17: Here is an argument against a voluptuous luxurious life, taken from the ruin it brings upon men's temporal interests. Here is 1. The description of an epicure: He loves pleasure. God allows us to use the delights of sense soberly and temperately, wine to make glad the heart and put vigour into the spirits, and oil to make the face to shine and beautify the...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:17: 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...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:17: Pro 21:17 17 He who loveth pleasure becometh a man of want; He who loveth wine and oil doth not become rich. In Arab. samh denotes the joyful action of the “cheerful giver,” 2Co 9:7; in Heb. the joyful affection; here, like farah, pleasure, delight, festival of joy. Jerome: qui diligit epulas.