¹⁷ Whoso `is' loving mirth `is' a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

²¹ For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

²⁰ A treasure to be desired, and oil, `Is' in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

¹⁶ and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

²⁴ and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

⁶ and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

⁴ traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,