Catholic Public Domain Version
"For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags. "
— Proverbs 23:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags. ”
“for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.”
“because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.”
“Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.”
“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.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
For you will have hope in the end, and your expectation will not be taken away.
Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way.
Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh.
For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.
Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.
The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him.