“ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ”
See the Proverbs 6:11 note.
[Yet] a little sleep, (l) a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: (l) See Proverbs 6:10
Second Division, Proverbs 24:23-34 . This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying i...
DISCOURSE: 808 THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD Proverbs 24:30-34 . I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,...
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: Compare the same, Proverbs 6:10-11 . So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I w...
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber ,.... The sight of the field and vineyard of the slothful put Solomon in mind of an observation he had made before, which fitly describes the disposition and g...
Proverbs 24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: Ver. 33. Yet a little sleep. ] Mercer makes this to be the lesson that the wise man both learnt him...
I went by the field of the slothful For the counsel intended to be conveyed by this paragraph, see note on Proverbs 6:6-11 . I looked upon it and received instruction I learned wisdom by his fol...
30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and...
See this and the following verse in Proverbs 6:10,11 .
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 24:30-34 THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD I. We have here a precious possession in the hands of an unworthy proprietor . A vineyard is not a heritage of litt...
Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...
I went by the field of the slothful. The moral sluggard Take these words as a pointed reproof of the negligent and immoral head of a family. The cause of prevailing irreligion is the deplorable...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...
v. 33. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, that being the thought governing the actions of the slothful;
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Proverbs 6:4-11 ; Romans 13:11