Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 23:21

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

21. drowsiness ] occasioned by excess of meat and drink. Comp. Luk 21:34.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

21. drowsinessthe dreamysleep of the slothful.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty,…. They consuming their substance upon their bellies, in eating and drinking; see Pr 21:17;

and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags; excessive eating and drinking brings drowsiness on men, unfits them for business, and makes them idle and slothful; and spending all on their bellies, they have nothing for their backs, and are clothed in rags; see Pr 24:33.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(21) Drowsiness, that follows after such debauches.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

v. 21. for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, all his property being dissipated in riotous living; and drowsiness, the laziness and apathy into which the intemperate man is bound to sink in consequence of his excesses, shall clothe a man with rags, bring him to the very depths of poverty.

Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann

Pro 23:21 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 poverty. ] Nay, to eternal misery in hell; 1Co 6:10 but few men fear that; beggary they hold worse than any hell. Per mare pauperiem fugiunt, per saxa, per ignes. a But poverty to such is but a prelude to a worse matter.

a Horat.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

poverty = dispossession. Hebrew. yarash. See note on Pro 6:11.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

the drunkard: Pro 21:17, Deu 21:20, Isa 28:1-3, Joe 1:5, 1Co 5:11, 1Co 6:10, Gal 5:21, Phi 3:19

drowsiness: Pro 6:9-11, Pro 19:15, Pro 24:30-34

Reciprocal: Job 20:14 – his meat Pro 18:9 – that is slothful Pro 23:29 – Who hath woe Pro 24:31 – and the Pro 28:19 – but Ecc 10:18 – General Eph 5:18 – be not

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge