16 The person who strays from common sense will end up in the company of the dead.

17 Those who love pleasure become poor; those who love wine and luxury will never be rich.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 21:16-17

Commentary on Proverbs 21:16

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Of all wanderers in the ways of sin, those are in the most dangerous condition who turn aside into the ways of darkness. Yet there is hope even for them in the all-sufficient Saviour; but let them flee to him without delay.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:17

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A life of worldly pleasure brings ruin on men.