1 Thessalonians 5:6-8; Ephesians 5:14; Proverbs 6:4-11; Romans 13:11
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. 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 understan...
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 co...
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...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perpe...
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...
[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 b...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 wic...
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. Th...
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...
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;...
33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: