Quotes about Excess
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
- Job 15:27
‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
- Job 22:20
Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
- Job 32:19
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
- Proverbs 23:20
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
- Proverbs 23:21
Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
- Proverbs 23:30
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
- Proverbs 25:16
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
- Proverbs 25:27
Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
- Isaiah 2:7
their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;
- Isaiah 3:20
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
- Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- Isaiah 5:11