THEOSISProverbs 20:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.
מֵ֭חֹרֶף עָצֵ֣ל לֹא־יַחֲרֹ֑שׁ ישאל וְשָׁאַ֖ל בַּקָּצִ֣יר וָאָֽיִן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:4The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.
- Prov 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- 2 Pet 1:5And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:
- 2 Pet 1:11For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
- Prov 13:4The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.
- Prov 24:34And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
- Prov 26:13The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.
- Prov 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.