Proverbs 23:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.

Ver. 21. For the drunkard shall come to poverty.] Nay, to eternal misery in hell; 1Co 6:10 but few men fear that; beggary they hold worse than any hell. Per mare pauperiem fugiunt, per saxa, per ignes. a But poverty to such is but a prelude to a worse matter.

a Horat.

Proverbs 23:21

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.