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Proverbs 23:21

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23:21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished,

and drowsiness37 clothes them with rags.38

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  1. 37 Here “drowsiness” is a metonymy of effect or adjunct, put for the drunkenness and gluttony that causes it. So all of it, the drunkenness and the drowsiness that comes from it, brings on the ruin (cf. “you will end up poor”). Likewise, “rags” is a metonymy of adjunct, associated with the poverty brought on by a dissolute lifestyle.
  2. 38 This is the fourteenth saying, warning about poor associations. Drunkenness and gluttony represent the epitome of the lack of discipline. In the they are used to measure a stubborn and rebellious son ( Sanhedrin 8). W. G. Plaut notes that excessive drinking and eating are usually symptoms of deeper problems; we usually focus more on the drinking because it is dangerous to others (Proverbs, 241–42).

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,

and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

for drunkards and gluttons become poor,

and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,

and grogginess will clothe them in rags.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

for they are on their way to poverty,

and too much sleep clothes them in rags.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,

and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:

And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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