Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Casteth into a deep sleep – Better, causeth deep sleep to fall.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Pro 19:15
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 business than the wretched one of killing time has no portion, right, or memorial in it; nor has he any right or portion in the age which we are serving. There is the rich idler, who lives to amuse himself. Such provide the demoralising element in our society. They lead the fashion in vice and frivolity. There is the poor idler. There are some who for the sake of equalising poverty and wealth would really equalise indolence and industry. In our great towns, more than half of our poverty is the result, direct or indirect, of that slothfulness which casts into a deep sleep. There is a hereditary pauperism. There is the poverty of recklessness and thoughtlessness and thriftlessness. A third type of idler is the idle-souled. Busy enough with earth, such have no business with heaven, no business with love, no business even with the ideals of duty. Leisure is very different from idleness. There is no leisure at all when the life is spent in idleness. It is the interval between work and work that gives the helpful leisure. Leisure is good, idleness is bad. Above all things, avoid heart indolence, moral and spiritual indolence, the indolence of the soul. (J. Marshall Lang, D. D.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 15. Into a deep sleep] tardemah, the same into which Adam was thrown, before Eve was taken from his side. Sloth renders a man utterly unconscious of all his interests. Though he has frequently felt hunger, yet he is regardless that his continual slothfulness must necessarily plunge him into more sufferings.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. a deep sleepa state ofutter indifference.
idle soulor, “person”(compare Pro 10:4; Pro 12:24).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 drowsiness; and are quite careless and unconcerned about either their temporal or eternal good; see Pr 6:9;
and an idle soul shall suffer hunger; and perish with it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense: an idle person, that will not work, ought not to eat; and an idle soul, or one that is unconcerned about his soul, and the spiritual food of it, shall perish for want of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
15 Slothfulness sinketh into deep sleep,
And an idle soul must hunger.
Regarding and its root-word , vid., at Pro 10:5. , to befall, to make to get, is to be understood after Gen 3:21; the obj. , viz., , is naturally to be supplied. In 15b the fut. denotes that which will certainly happen, the inevitable. In both of its members the proverb is perfectly clear; Hitzig, however, corrects 15a, and brings out of it the meaning, “slothfulness gives tasteless herbs to eat.” The lxx has two translations of this proverb, here and at Pro 18:8. That it should translate by was necessary, as Lagarde remarks, for the exposition of the “works of a Hebrew Sotades.” But the Hebrew literature never sunk to such works, wallowing in the mire of sensuality, and is not at all thus enigmatical; the Greek word was also used of an effeminate man, a man devoid of manliness, a weakling, and was, as the lxx shows, more current in the Alexandrine Greek than elsewhere.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
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, and mindless of their own affairs, as they were cast into a deep sleep, dreaming much, but doing nothing. Slothful people doze away their time, bury their talents, live a useless life, and are the unprofitable burdens of the earth; for any service they do when they are awake they might as well be always asleep. Even their souls are idle and lulled asleep, their rational powers chilled and frozen. 2. It impoverishes men and brings them to want. Those that will not labour cannot expect to eat, but must suffer hunger: An idle soul, one that is idle in the affairs of his soul, that takes no care or pains to work out his salvation, shall perish for want of that which is necessary to the life and happiness of the soul.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
Consequences of Laziness
Verse 15 describes the downward progression of laziness. The sluggard sleeps or loafs much, ignores opportunity to work or the ‘ season to plant and cultivate, and comes to hunger because there is no income and nothing to reap at the harvest season, Pro 6:9-11; Pro 10:4; Pro 20:4; Pro 20:13; Pro 24:33-34.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(15) Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep.Or rather, makes it fall upon a man, as upon Adam (Gen. 2:21).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. Casteth Rather, causeth deep sleep to fall, amounting to stupor and lethargy.
A deep sleep , ( tardemah,) the same word used in Gen 2:2, concerning Adam.
An idle soul Or person. Comp. Pro 6:9-10; Pro 10:4; Pro 12:2.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 19:15 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 forth. Pro 6:9-11 ; Pro 10:4 See Trapp on “ Pro 6:9 “ See Trapp on “ Pro 6:10 “ See Trapp on “ Pro 6:11 “ See Trapp on “ Pro 10:4 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Pro 19:15
Pro 19:15
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
“Laziness is the undoing of the worthless; idlers must starve.” No Biblical ethic stands any higher than “the work ethic.” “If a man will not work,” the New Testament declares, “neither shall he eat.” (2Th 3:10). The same commandment of the Decalogue that says, “Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy,” also says, “Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.”
“Shout it, ye lords of creation;
And ring it, ye bells of the kirk;
The gospel of God and salvation
Is surely the gospel of work!
– Henry Van Dyke
Pro 19:15. Slothfulness, idleness, excessive sleep, and poverty are connected in this and other passages in Proverbs (Pro 6:9-11; Pro 10:4; Pro 20:13; Pro 23:21). Two apt sayings: Idleness is a living mans tomb and Sloth is the mother of poverty.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
casteth: Pro 19:24, Pro 6:9, Pro 6:10, Pro 20:13, Pro 23:21, Pro 24:33, Isa 56:10, Rom 13:11, Rom 13:12, Eph 5:14
and: Pro 10:4, Pro 10:5, Pro 20:13, Pro 23:21, 2Th 3:10
Reciprocal: Gen 2:21 – General 2Sa 11:2 – arose from 2Sa 19:7 – comfortably unto thy Pro 6:6 – thou Pro 12:24 – but Pro 20:4 – sluggard Pro 26:13 – General Mat 20:3 – standing Mat 20:6 – Why Luk 16:3 – I cannot 1Th 5:6 – let us not 2Pe 1:8 – barren
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 19:15. 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 unconcernedness about the most necessary things, and thereby reduce a man to extreme want and beggary; to which may be added a third, that they tempt him to shift and use dishonest arts for a livelihood. Bishop Patrick.