Bible in Basic English
"The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth."
— Proverbs 21:17, Bible in Basic English
“He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.”
By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.