Solomon uses humour here. This is a very lazy man. He is too lazy, even to eat. This means the same as verse 15. A lazy man refuses to work, so he will earn nothing. Because he earns nothing, he will be hungry. Solomon’s story in verse 24 explains this as a joke.
Verse Proverbs 19:24. _A SLOTHFUL_ MAN _HIDETH HIS HAND IN_ HIS _BOSOM_] Is too lazy to feed himself, If he dip his hand _once_ in the dish, he is too lazy to put it in a _second_ time. It is a strang...
HIDETH HIS HAND IN HIS BOSOM - Better, dippeth his hand in the dish (compare 2 Kings 21:13). The scene brought before us is that of an Eastern feast. There are no knives, or forks, or spoons. Every gu...
III. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON CHAPTER 19:20-29 Beginning with the twentieth verse of chapter 19 the personal address begins again and we read repeatedly the phrase “My son” up to the twenty-fif...
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
BOSOM. bowl or wide dish. 2 Kings 21:13. Compare Matthew 26:23....
_hideth his hand in his bosom_ Rather, BURIETH HIS HAND IN THE DISH (R.V.), after the Oriental fashion of eating. See Proverbs 26:15, where this clause occurs again. Comp. Matthew 26:23. The Heb. word...
A SLOTHFUL MAN— This verse contains a most elegant but hyperbolical description of a man who has given himself up to sloth; who refuses to do things as easy pulling his hand out of his bosom, and as n...
TEXT Proverbs 19:21-29 21. There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand. 22. That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is bet...
A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again. A SLOTHFUL (MAN) HIDETH HIS HAND IN (HIS) BOSOM. So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic. The Hebrew...
RV 'The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish,' etc.: the allusion is to the large dish in the centre into which all dip (Mark 14:20)....
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
A SLOTHFUL MAN HIDETH HIS HAND IN HIS BOSOM. — Better, in the _dish_ that stood in the middle of the table at an Oriental dinner, into which the guests dipped their hands to take out the food for them...
טָ֘מַ֤ן עָצֵ֣ל יָ֭דֹו בַּ † צַּלָּ֑חַת גַּם...
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
CHAPTER XIX. Arm-pit. Or Hebrew tsallachath, "in the pot," out of which he eats; which shews his negligence. --- Mouth, to eat. This hyperbole indicates that he is too lazy to take the necessary sust...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
A SLOTHFUL [MAN] HIDETH HIS HAND IN [HIS] BOSOM,.... In cold weather to keep it warm, and at other times, as unwilling to use it in labour; it is the proper posture and just attitude of a slothful man...
A slothful [man] hideth his hand in [his] bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again. Ver. 24. _A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom._] The Latins say, He wraps it in his cloak...
_A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom_ Either to keep it warm in cold weather, or to give it rest, being unwilling to fatigue it with the labour of any action; _and will not bring it to his mou...
V. 24. A SLOTHFUL MAN HIDETH HIS HAND IN HIS BOSOM, rather, he plunges it into the wide dish which contained the principal food of the family, AND WILL NOT SO MUCH AS BRING IT TO HIS MOUTH AGAIN, too...
HIDETH HIS HAND IN HIS BOSOM; either to keep it warm in cold weather; or to give it rest, being loth to oppress it with the labour of any action. It is a sarcastical hyperbole. WILL NOT SO MUCH AS BRI...
Proverbs 19:24 lazy H6102 buries H2934 (H8804) hand H3027 bowl H6747 bring H7725 mouth H6310 again H7725 ...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
_A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom._ A PROTEST AGAINST LAZINESS Most critics substitute the word “dish” for “bosom” here: “A slothful man hideth his hand in his dish.” This certainly makes...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:22. THE DESIRE OF A MAN, &c. Rather “_A man’s delight_ (or glory) _is his beneficence_, or _A man’s kindness is what makes him desirable_, or _is a desirable adornment_....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
Proverbs 12:27; Proverbs 15:19; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 24:30;...
Bring it — To feed himself; he expects that the meat should drop into his mouth....