Proverbs 23:21

Drowsiness; immoderate sleep and idleness, which is a ready a way to poverty as gluttony or drunkenness is.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverb...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

poverty . dispossession. Hebrew. yarash. See note on Proverbs 6:11 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. And drowsiness (the natural effect of ex...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The drowsiness follows nights of intemperance.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Drowsiness, that follows after such debauches.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the g...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty ,.... They consuming their substance upon their bellies, in eating and drinking; see Proverb...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. Ver. 21. For the drunkard shall come to pov...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hear and be wise Rest not in hearing, but see that thou grow wiser and better by it. And guide thy heart in the way Order the whole course of thi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For t...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:17 . Let not thine heart envy , etc. The verb translated envy refers to both objects in the verse, and is better tr...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if th...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 23:1-20 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 21. for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, all his property being dissipated in riotous living; and drowsiness, the laziness...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 5:11 ; 1 Corinthians 6:10 ; Deuteronomy 21:20 ; Galatians 5:21 ; Isaiah 28:1-3 ; Joel 1:5 ; Philippians 3:19 ; Proverbs 19:15 ;...

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 23:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 23:21