PROVERBS 23:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
For drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags—a consequence of indulgence: poverty and degradation follow. The verb 'clothes them in rags' (yalbesh beged) suggests that they are literally dressed in tatters; their condition is visible. The theological significance involves the principle that vice produces its own punishment.
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