(De 21:20), Heb zolel, from a word meaning "to shake out," "to squander;" and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Pr 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Pr 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version, "gluttonous." Mt 11:19; Lu 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.
"They shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.'
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
He who keeps the law is a discerning son, But he who is a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.
"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."
"The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
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