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For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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The Inevitable Outcome
Commentators unanimously affirm the verse's direct warning: a lifestyle of drunkenness and gluttony leads to poverty. As John Gill explains, these habits consume one's resources while the resulting drowsiness and idleness make a person unproductive, leaving them with nothing and metaphorically 'clothed in rags.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
(Proverbs 23:16) The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s hea…
19th Century
Anglican
Drowsiness, that follows after such excesses.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty They consuming their substance upon their bellies, in eating …
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