“ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. ”
Casteth into a deep sleep - Better, causeth deep sleep to fall.
Proverbs 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. Proverbs 1...
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Into a deep sleep - תרדמה tardemah, the same into which Adam was thrown, before Eve was taken from his side. Sloth render...
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. Moderate labour sharpens the spirit; idleness dulls it. And an idle so...
1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. — Or rather, makes it fall upon a man, as upon Adam ( Genesis 2:21 ).
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb...
Verse Proverbs 19:7 . This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been l...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep ,.... Slothful persons are generally sleepy, and are very desirous of sleep, and indulge themselves in it; they spend their time, day and night, in sleep and d...
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Ver. 15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. ] Sloth bringeth sleep, and sleep poverty. See this excellently set f...
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep “As labour makes men vigorous and rich, so sloth and idleness have these two miserable effects, that they insensibly sink the mind into a dull stupidity and u...
15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. See here the evil of a sluggish slothful disposition. 1. It stupefies men, and makes them senseless,...
Casteth into a deep sleep; maketh a man careless and, negligent, and like one asleep in his business, whereby he cometh to want, as it follows.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 19:13 . Calamity . The word so translated is in the plural form, so as to express the continuance of the trouble. MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:13-14 ; Proverbs 19:...
Proverbs 19:1 . Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of...
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Idlers and idleness In the big, busy city, the one who seems out of touch with it is the idler. He who has no other...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walkth in his integrity. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7 , Proverbs 19:22 , rash, which signifies "poor" in oppositi...
v. 15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, causing a man to sink into stupor and lethargy, sapping the last bit of his energy, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger, that being the result of s...
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Isaiah 56:10 ; Proverbs 10:4 ; Proverbs 10:5 ; Proverbs 20:13 ; Proverbs 23:21 ; Proverbs 19:24 ; Proverbs 20:13 ; Proverbs 23:21 ; Proverbs 24:33 ;...
Casteth — Makes a man careless, and like one asleep in his business.