Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

New American Standard Bible

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

King James Version

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Holman Bible

For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,
and grogginess will clothe them in rags.

International Standard Version

because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Amplified


For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And the drowsiness [of overindulgence] will clothe one with rags.

Bible in Basic English

For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed

Darby Translation

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Julia Smith Translation

For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.

King James 2000

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them

Modern King James verseion

for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

NET Bible

because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

New Heart English Bible

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

The Emphasized Bible

For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!

Webster

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

World English Bible

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Youngs Literal Translation

For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סבא 
Caba' 
Usage: 5

and the glutton
זלל 
Zalal 
Usage: 9

ירשׁ ירשׁ 
Yarash 
Usage: 231

נוּמה 
Nuwmah 
Usage: 1

לבשׁ לבשׁ 
Labash 
Usage: 111

References

Easton

Images Proverbs 23:21

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.



Cross References

Proverbs 21:17

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Deuteronomy 21:20

and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Proverbs 6:9-11

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 24:30-34

I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Isaiah 28:1-3

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!

Joel 1:5

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

1 Corinthians 5:11

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:21

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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