Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
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