Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
To wit, until thou hast taken care for the discharge of this obligation. Be not secure, nor negligent, nor dilatory in this matter.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
4, 5. The danger requirespromptness.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Until the above things are done; which denotes of what consequence and importance they are; and that persons in such circumstances should not be careless, dilatory, and unconcerned; but should use great diligence, and leave no stone unturned, or method untried, to extricate themselves; see Ps 132:4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
4, 5. Give not sleep, etc. Meaning that he should urge the heedless debtor to fulfil his obligations before it is too late before the creditor commences a judicial process. (Zockler.)
Roe See on Pro 5:19.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Ver. 4. Give not sleep to thine eyes, &c. ] Augustus wondered at a certain knight in Rome, that owed much, and yet could sleep securely; and when this knight died, he sent to buy his bed, as supposing there was something more than ordinary in it, to procure sleep. a The opportunity of liberty and thriving is to be well husbanded, lest some storm arising from the cruelty of creditors, or mutability of outward things, overwhelm a man with debt and danger, as the whirlwind doth the unwary traveller upon the Alps with snow. Now if such care be taken that we run not rashly in debt to men, how much more to God! If to undertake for others be so dangerous, how should we pray with that godly man Augustine, From my “other men’s sins” good Lord deliver me! If we are so to humble ourselves to our fellow creatures in this case, how much more should we “humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may lift us up in due season!” Jam 4:10 If this is to be done without delay, where the danger reacheth but to the outward man, how much more speed and earnestness should be used in making peace with God, whose wrath is a fire that burns as low as hell, and getting the black lines of our sins drawn over with the red lines of his Son’s blood; and so utterly razed out of the book of his remembrance!
a Dio.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Pro 6:10, Pro 6:11, Psa 132:4, Ecc 9:10, Mat 24:17, Mat 24:18, Mar 13:35, Mar 13:36
Reciprocal: Gen 19:15 – hastened 1Sa 20:38 – General 1Sa 25:18 – made haste 2Sa 17:16 – but speedily 2Sa 19:16 – hasted Psa 55:7 – General Pro 24:33 – General Isa 56:10 – loving Jer 48:6 – Flee Mar 13:15 – General Luk 22:46 – Why sleep ye Joh 5:4 – first Act 24:25 – when