Proverbs 21:17-25

¹⁷If you love pleasure you'll become poor; if you love wine and olive oil you won't ever be rich.

¹⁸The wicked pay the price and not the good; those who are deceitful and not those who live right.

¹⁹It's better to live in a desert than with an argumentative and bad-tempered wife.

²⁰The wise hold on to their wealth and olive oil, but stupid people use up everything they have.

²¹If you pursue goodness and trustworthy love, you'll find life, prosperity, and honor.

²²The wise can overcome a city belonging to strong warriors, and tear down the fortress they trusted to protect them.

²³If you watch what you say, you can save yourself a lot of trouble.

²⁴A proud, conceited, mocker—that's the name of those who act with insolent arrogance.

²⁵Slackers die hungry because they refuse to work.